[5] October 19 - Medieval natural history and natural philosophy: Tradition and transformation
The transmission of Hellenistic science to the Latin West. Encyclopaedias. Translations. Indigenous developments. The emergence of logic as a methodology for science. Institutions of knowledge.
Presentation: Aggeliki [update: postponed]
Discussion leader: Robert
Assigned reading:
Edward Grant, A History of Natural Philosophy. From the Ancient World to the Nineteenth Century (2006), 97-178.
Further reading:
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Pages 97-178