Before Galileo: The Birth of Modern Science in Medieval Europe

by John Freely

Book Overview

Virtually nothing is said about the European scholars who came before. In reality, more than a millennium before the Renaissance, a succession of scholars paved the way for the discoveries for which Galileo, Newton, and others are often credited. In Before Galileo, John Freely examines the pioneering research of the first European scientists, many of them monks whose influence ranged far beyond the walls of the monasteries where they studied and wrote...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 159020607X
• ISBN13: 9781590206072
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
• Length: 348 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher