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Preface xi
Ancient Egypt to Plato 1
The Preliterate Beginnings 1
Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia 2
Early Greek Natural Philosophy and Medicine 6
Plato 21
Aristotle (384-322 BC) 27
Life 27
Works: Aristotle's Writings and Their Preservation 28
Aristotle's Achievements 33
Aristotle's Cosmos and Natural Philosophy 37
The Scope of Aristotle's Natural Philosophy 42
Late Antiquity 52
Neoplatonism and Its Approach to Aristotle 52
Islam and the Eastward Shift of Aristotelian Natural Philosophy 61
The Translations 61
The Fate of Natural Philosophy in Islam 68
Natural Philosophy before the Latin Translations 95
Roman Authors 95
The Latin Encyclopedists: European Learning to the Ninth Century 97
The Twelfth Century and Its Immediate Antecedents 105
Hostile Reception of the New Theology 115
Natural Philosophy in the Twelfth Century 116
Translations in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 130
The World of the Translators 130
Translations from Arabic and Greek in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 132
How Trustworthy Are Aristotle's Translated Texts? 138
Pseudo-Aristotle: Works Falsely Attributed to Aristotle 140
Natural Philosophy after the Translations: Its Role and Place in the Late Middle Ages 143
The Medieval University 143
The Impact of Aristotelian Natural Philosophy in the Early Thirteenth Century to 1240 146
University Lectures on Natural Philosophy 152
The Classification of the Sciences and the Subject of Natural Philosophy 155
Anonymous Fourteenth-Century Treatise on Natural Philosophy 165
The Occult Sciences and Natural Philosophy 170
The Form and Content of Late Medieval Natural Philosophy 179
John Buridan: On the Possibility of Other Worlds 183
The Substantive Nature of Natural Philosophy in the Late Middle Ages 190
Thought Experiments and the Role of the Imagination 200
Beyond Aristotle 211
Was Aristotelian Natural Philosophy Science? 234
The Relations between Natural Philosophy and Theology 239
The Disciplinary Relations between Natural Philosophy and Theology 247
Did God and Theology Play an Integral Role in Medieval Natural Philosophy? 248
How a Few Significant Natural Philosophers Viewed the Relations between Natural Philosophy and Theology 251
The Relationship as Reflected in the Questions and Commentaries on the Works of Aristotle 257
Did Natural Philosophy Influence Medieval Theology? 262
The Transformation of Medieval Natural Philosophy from the Early Modern Period to the End of the Nineteenth Century 274
The Fate of Medieval Natural Philosophy during the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries 274
The New Natural Philosophy of the Seventeenth Century 278
The Relations between Natural Philosophy and Science in the Seventeenth and Nineteenth Centuries 303
The Revolution in Natural Philosophy from the Middle Ages to the Nineteenth Century 307
The Continuity of History and the Problem of Names and Terminology 319
Conclusion 323
Bibliography 331
Index 347
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Linda Cucchi-robinson
reviewed History of Natural Philosophy: From the Ancient World to the Nineteenth Century on September 19, 2013
History of Natural Philosophy
While this survey of natural philosophy is indeed comprehensive, I felt it to be quite haphazard and lacking structure beyond the historical timeline given. Moreover, Grant tends to overemphasize biographical sketches of thinkers as well as the issue of translating text across cultures, which I found to be tangential to the philosophical exposition for which I was hungry. What much of the book starts out with in terms of Aristotles writing, the rest leaves to understanding how people grappled with, translated, regurgitated, or refuted his works, rather than discussing the theoretical and practical advancements made thereafter, by the likes of physicists or other natural philosophers. Perhaps we are left with wondering what happened during this timeframe in terms of major contributions to the field? Or was there no one until Francis Bacon no more influential? Otherwise, I felt underwhelmed at the knowledge I gleaned from the text, much more likely to glaze over another name (which, to the authors' credit, is thoroughly researched), in order to find any real meaty takeaways on how this field advanced over the course of history. Three stars.
As a qualifier, I particularly enjoyed the sections on Aristotelian natural philosophy, the turbulent relationship between natural philosophy and theology, as well as the reasoning behind why the Aristotelian and Neoplatonic schools did not take root in Islamic society. And in his conclusion, Grant does make the apt point that maybe we wouldn't have had the scientific revolution of the enlightenment occurred when it did had we not underwent the tumult of "probing and poking around" not taken place.
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