About this title: This book provides new perspectives on the ways in which scholastic natural philosophy anticipated and contributed to the emergence of scientific thought. Historians of medieval science have hesitated to step outside the sphere of intellectual culture in their search for factors influencing proto-scientific thought. This book searches for influences both within and beyond university culture, and argues that the transformation of the conceptual model of the natural world c.1260-1380 was strongly influenced by the contemporary rapid monetisation of European society. It analyses the impact of ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780521793865ISBN:0521793866
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 9.02 by.79 inches. (285 pages) a paperback of a brilliant and highly original contribution to early scientific thought. a brilliant study of proto-scientific thought, arguing that the transformation of the conceptual model of the natural world c.1260-1380 was strongly influenced by rapid mo*n*e*t*isation in european society. a brilliant study of proto-scientific thought, arguing that the transformation of the conceptual model of the natural world c.1260-1380 was strongly ... read more
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780521572767ISBN:0521572762
Description: BRAND NEW HARDBACK. 9.29 by 1.02 inches. (285 pages) a paperback of a brilliant and highly original contribution to early scientific thought. a brilliant study of proto-scientific thought, arguing that the transformation of the conceptual model of the natural world c.1260-1380 was strongly influenced by rapid mo*n*e*t*isation in european society. a brilliant study of proto-scientific thought, arguing that the transformation of the conceptual model of the natural world c.1260-1380 was strongly ... read more
Binding: PAPERBACK
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: 1998-01-01
ISBN-13:9780521793865ISBN:0521793866
Description: New. 0521793866 The subtitle of this book is `money, market exchange and the emergence of scientific thought'. Its central premise is that the transformation of the conceptual model of the natural world within natural philosophy that took place from c.1260-1380 was directly linked to the social and economic process of monetization that transformed European society over the same period. Kaye analyses scholastic writings on economic questions, particularly those found in commentaries on ... read more
Description: New. A brilliant study of proto-scientific thought, arguing that the transformation of the conceptual model of the natural world c.1260'Äì1380 was strongly influenced by rapid monetisation in European society. read more
Description: New. A brilliant study of proto-scientific thought, arguing that the transformation of the conceptual model of the natural world c.1260'Äì1380 was strongly influenced by rapid monetisation in European society. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIV PR
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780521793865ISBN:0521793866
Description: New. Intellectual developments pioneered by scholastic natural philosophers of the fourteenth century constituted a critical stage in the emergence of scientific thought. Beneath these technical developments lay a profound reconceptualization of nature. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13:9780521793865ISBN:0521793866
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13:9780521793865ISBN:0521793866
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13:9780521793865ISBN:0521793866
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