David C. Lindberg byl americký historik vědy se zaměřením na středověkou a raně novověkou vědu, zejména fyzikální vědy a vztah mezi náboženstvím a vědou. Jeho dílo zkoumá propojení náboženských představ a vědeckých objevů v klíčových obdobích evropských dějin. Lindbergův přístup se vyznačoval hlubokým porozuměním dobovým kontextům a snahou odhalit nuance ve vývoji vědeckého myšlení. Jeho práce představuje cenný vhled do dynamiky mezi vírou a rozumem v historii vědy.
Chronicling the development of scientific ideas, practices, and institutions from pre-Socratic Greek philosophy to late-medieval scholasticism, this title surveys the themes in the history of science, including developments in cosmology, astronomy, mechanics, optics, alchemy, natural history, and medicine.
This book explores the complex relationship between science and Christianity over 2000 years, challenging the oversimplified views of conflict or harmony. It examines twelve significant historical episodes, including the Galileo affair and Darwinian evolution, presenting each case with unique context and detail for general readers.
Despite the intensive research of the past quarter century, there still is no single book that examines all major aspects of the medieval scientific enterprise in depth. This illustrated volume is meant to fill that gap. In it sixteen leading scholars address themselves to topics central to their research, providing as full an account of medieval science as current knowledge permits. Although the book is definitive, it is also introductory, for the authors have directed their chapters to a beginning audience of diverse readers, including undergraduates, scholars specializing in other fields, and the interested lay reader.The book is not encylopedic, for it does not attempt to provide all relevant factual data; rather, it attempts to interpret major developments in each of the disciplines that made up the medieval scientific world. Data are not absent, but their function is to support and illustrate generalizations about the changing shape of medieval science. The editor, David C. Lindberg, has written a Preface in which he discusses the growth of scholarship in this field in the twentieth century.