Before Science: The Invention of the Friars' Natural Philosophy

From: The Catholic Historical Review | Date: April 1, 1997| Author: | Copyright information

Before Science: The Invention of the Friars' Natural Philosophy. By Roger French and Andrew Cunningham. (Brookfield, Vermont: Scolar Press, Ashgate Publishing Company. 1996. Pp. x, 298.)

French and Cunningham argue in this book that there was no medieval science, but only medieval natural philosophy; and this natural philosophy, they assure us, was radically different from what we now call "science":". . there was no scientific tradition (in the modern sense of the term 'scientific') of looking at nature in the thirteenth century, only a religio-political way of doing so" (p. 273). What ...

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