Reviews for Dawn of Modern Science: From the Arabs to Leonardo Da Vinci

The average rating for Dawn of Modern Science: From the Arabs to Leonardo Da Vinci based on 2 reviews is 2.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2017-04-26 00:00:00 Tyler Putterman Thomas Goldstein's fine effort at describing the cultural-evolutionary aspects of western science runs for 277 readable pages. It is also well illustrated with historical woodcuts, drawings, and a good blend of modern photographs of the subjects he touches upon. Where you cannot read George Sarton for the same purposes, Goldstein fleshes out the discussion and of course, is much more confined. The progression of western science from its Babylonian / Greek roots through the Islamic period, and into the modern Christian-Judaic is discussed in readable detail. He chooses one root of the great tree of western science as springing up in the southwestern corner of Europe, in southern France and Spain, where in the latter location, the Islamic period before 1350 or so had its greatest flowering. He indeed devotes a whole chapter to the Islamic contribution. Especially fascinating is the discussion on cathedral building as a communal and thus unifying activity in the early Christian-Judaic period, shortly after the Patristic fathers began abandoning a faith-based totality in obeying only Aristotle and Plato , at the gates of Padua and thus, Copernicus and Galileo. Of some value are his footnotes, fleshing out where he obtained the information for his contextual approach in this volume of the American Heritage Library. There's a fine introduction by the late science popularizer Isaac Asimov, a now sadly-forgotten type as this respectful, research-experienced functionalist science-type guy has given way to the Bill Nye (the) Science Guy(s).

Review # 2 was written on 2019-10-15 00:00:00 Anthony Reyna يتحدث في فصول متفرقة عن بدايات علوم كالفلك من عصور اعتقد فيها الانسان بان الارض مركز الكون الي عصر تم فيه تصحيح مكانة الارض.. فصول اخري عديدة بالكتاب علي نفس المنوال.