Mathematics and its Applications to Science and Natural Philosophy in the Middle Ages
Essays in Honour of Marshall Clagett

Table of Contents

List of contributors
Introduction Edward Grant and John E. Murdoch
Pure Mathematics:
1. The medieval tradition of Archimedes' Sphere and Cylinder Wilbur Knorr
Applied Mathematics:
2. Colonizing the world for mathematics: the diversity of medieval strategies A. George Molland
Part I. Natural Philosophy:
3. Mathematical physics and imagination in the work of the Oxford Calculators: Roger Swineshead's On Natural Motions Edith D. Sylla
4. Thomas Bradwardine: mathematics and continuity in the fourteenth century John E. Murdoch
Part II. Astronomy and Cosmology:
5. Plinian astronomical diagrams in the early Middle Ages Bruce Eastwood
6. Coordinates and categories: the graphical representation of functions in medieval astronomy J. D. North
7. Eccentrics and epicycles in medieval cosmology Edward Grant
Part III. Optics:
8. Psychology versus mathematics: Ptolemy and Alhazen on the moon illusion A. I. Sabra
9. Roger Bacon and the origins of perspectiva in the West David C. Lindberg
10. Mathematics and experiement in Witelo's Perspectiva Sabetai Unguru
Part IV. Medicine:
11. The two faces of a medical career: Jordanus de Turre of Motpellier Michael R. McVaugh
Publications of Marshall Clagett
Index.