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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      16 July 2009
      12 February 1998
      ISBN:
      9780511496523
      9780521572767
      9780521793865
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511496523
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.6kg, 286 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.47kg, 286 Pages
      • Subjects:
      History of Science, British History 1066-1450, Area Studies, European History 1000-1450, History, European Studies, General Science
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series (35)
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    Subjects:
    History of Science, British History 1066-1450, Area Studies, European History 1000-1450, History, European Studies, General Science
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series (35)
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    This book provides perspectives on the ways in which scholastic natural philosophy anticipated and contributed to the emergence of scientific thought. Historians of medieval science have hesitated to step outside the sphere of intellectual culture in their search for factors influencing proto-scientific thought. This book searches for influences both within and beyond university culture, and argues that the transformation of the conceptual model of the natural world c.1260–1380 was strongly influenced by the contemporary rapid monetisation of European society. It analyses the impact of the monetised market place on the most characteristic concern of natural philosophy of the period: its preoccupation with measurement, gradation, and the quantification of qualities.

    Awards

    Winner of the John Nicholas Brown Prize

    Reviews

    ‘Medievalists have neglected the history of ideas in our generation, but this study shows how it should be revived and practiced.’

    John W. Baldwin Source: The American Historical Review

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