Science, Optics, and Music in Medieval and Early Modern Thought
London: The Hambledon Press, 1990.
First Edition. Hardcover. 9 1/2" X 6 1/4". xxii, 474pp. Rubbing, creasing, and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Bound in blue cloth over boards with spine lettered in gilt. Gentle rubbing and bumps to corners and edges of boards. Faint toning to edges of text block. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is firm, square, and sound.
ABOUT THIS BOOK:
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 coherent body of essays that complement his books and are of independent value. A.C. Crombie traces general themes in the development of Science: the Aristotelian inheritance and the importance of the search for logical explanation in the middle ages; the ambitions and limitations of experiment and quantification; changing attitudes to scientific progress; the relations between Science and the Arts, and between Mathematics, Music and Medical Science; and the study of the senses. In particular he shows how the mechanistic hypothesis stimulated the experimental and philosophical study of vision.(Publisher). Very good / very good. Item #15228
ISBN: 0907628796
Price: $20.00