God’s Philosophers: How the Medieval World Laid the Foundations of Modern Science

James Hannam

Language: English

Publisher: Icon Books

Published: May 11, 2011

Description:

God's Philosophers is a celebration of the forgotten scientific achievements of the Middle Ages - advances which were often made thanks to, rather than in spite of, the influence of Christianity and Islam. Decisive progress was also made in technology: spectacles and the mechanical clock, for instance, were both invented in thirteenth-century Europe.