TY - BOOK TI - Science and religion, 400 B.C. to A.D. 1550 :: from Aristotle to Copernicus SN - 0313328587 (alk. paper) U1 - 201.6509 PY - 2004/// CY - Westport, Conn. : PB - Greenwood Press N1 - 1. Introduction The Middle Ages: A Time of Ignorance and Barbarism? Or a Period of Striking Irmovation? Religion and Science among the Greeks prior to the Emergence of Christianity The Propagation of Science Brief Descriptions of Chapters 2-8 2. Aristotle and the Beginnings of Two Thousand Years of Natural Philosophy Life Works Achievements Aristotle's Cosmos and Natural Philosophy The Scope of Natural Philosophy 3. Science and Natural Philosophy in the Roman Empire The Pre-Socratic Natural Philosophers The Emergence and Development of the Sciences in the Greek World The Life Sciences The Exact Sciences Greek Science in the Roman Empire to the Sixth Century a.d. 4. The First Six Centuries of Christianity: Christian Attitudes toward Greek Philosophy and Science The Mystery Religions and Astrology The Triumph of Christianity in the Roman World Christianity and the Pagan Intellectual World Commentaries on Genesis (Hexameral Treatises): The Christian Understanding of the Creation of the World 5. The Emergence of a New Europe after the Barbarian Invasions The Latin Encyclopedists Western Europe at Its Nadir The New Europe in the Twelfth Century The Begirmings of the New Natural Philosophy 6. The Medieval Universities and the Impact of Aristotle's Natural Philosophy The Translations of Aristotle's Books on Natural Philosophy Universities in the Middle Ages Types of Literature in Natural Philosophy The Relations between Natural Philosophy and Theology in the Thirteenth Century Is Theology a Science? 7. The Interrelations between Natural Philosophy and Theology in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries The Influence of the Condemnation of 1277 on Natural Philosophy The Impact of Religion on Natural Philosophy in the Middle Ages The Role of Natural Philosophy in Theology The Significance and Meaning of the Interaction between Natural Philosophy and Theology 8. Relations between Science and Religion in the Byzantine Empire, the World of Islam, and the Latin West The Byzantine Empire Islam The Latin West Primary Sources 1. Roger Bacon, The "Opus Majus" of Roger Bacon 2. Giles of Rome, Errores Philosophorum 3. Saint Bonaventure, On the Eternity of the World (De Aeternitate Mundi) 4. Saint Thomas Aquinas, On the Eternity of the World (De Aeternitate Mundi) 5. Albert of Saxony, Questions on [Aristotle's] On the Heavens 6. Nicole Oresme, Le Livre du del et du monde ER -