Medieval Science and Technology ( Greenwood Guides to Historics Events of the Medieval World Series) Book

Ch. 1	Overview and history : the classical tradition and the early Middle Ages	1
Ch. 2	Institutional history : the high and late Middle Ages	17
Ch. 3	Aristotle, Plato, and the medieval scientific worldview	37
Ch. 4	The exact sciences	59
Ch. 5	The biological and earth sciences	89
Ch. 6	Medieval technology	111
Ch. 7	The impact of medieval science and technology	139
	Biographies	147
	Adelard of Bath	147
	Albertus Magnus (Albert the Great)	148
	Alhazen (Ibn al-Haythan)	149
	Aristotle	150
	Avicenna (Ibn Sina)	152
	Roger Bacon	153
	Thomas Bradwardine	155
	Filippo Brunelleschi	156
	John Buridan	157
	Giovanni Dondi	158
	Leonardo Fibonacci (Leonardo of Pisa)	159
	Galen of Pergamum	159
	Gerard of Cremona	161
	Robert Grosseteste	161
	Hildegard of Bingen	162
	Isidore of Seville	165
	Nicole Oresme	166
	Peter Peregrinus (Peter of Maricourt)	167
	Plato	168
	Claudius Ptolemy	170
	Trotula	171
	Primary documents	173
1	Aristotle on final causes in nature; from the Physics	173
2	Galen (129-199 or 200) on female physiology and inferiority	176
3	Trotula on the diseases of women (eleventh century)	177
4	Adelard of Bath (c. 1080-1142) on the important scientific questions in the twelfth century; from his Questions on natural science	185
5	Albertus Magnus (c. 1193-1280) on animals : the rabbit and spiders	189
6	Guy de Chauliac (c. 1290-c. 1367-70), medieval surgeon, on what makes a good doctor	193
7	A medieval herbal (thirteenth century)	196
8	Nicole Oresme (c. 1325-82) and arguments for the diurnal rotation of the earth	202
9	Hugh of St. Victor on the mechanical arts	206
10	Roger Bacon (c. 1219-92) on experimental science; from the Opus maius	213
11	A Cistercian monk praises the mechanized water system of Clairvaux Abbey	219
12	Medieval alchemy	221