A.C. Crombie is one of the best known writers on the history of Science. Science, Optics and Music in Medieval and Early Modern Thought brings together a cohere
The author sees the history of Western Science as the history of a vision and an argument, initiated by the ancient Greeks in their search for principles at onc
The book's argument depends, as do most proposals in education, upon cer tain positions in the philosophy of education. I believe that education should be prima
Kevin Killeen addresses one of the most enigmatic of seventeenth century writers, Thomas Browne (1605-1682), whose voracious intellectual pursuits provide an un
Contrary to prevailing opinion, the roots of modern science were planted in the ancient and medieval worlds long before the Scientific Revolution of the sevente