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Black Magic, White Magic & the Theory of Magic
The Foundations of Modern Science in the Middle Ages
- First published1996
- TraditionBlack & White Magic
- Shelf83 books
A survey of medieval natural philosophy and its institutional setting, arguing that the medieval universities laid important foundations for the scientific revolution. Grant discusses the condemnation of 1277 and its effect on speculation about God's absolute power, the vacuum and the plurality of worlds, while qualifying Pierre Duhem's famous thesis.
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