NATURAL PHILOSOPHY

By MARK DAVIS

CONTENTS 1 WHEN DID MODERN SCIENCE BEGIN? 2 SCIENCE AND THE MEDIEVAL UNIVERSITY 3 THE CONDEMNATION OF 1277, GOD’S ABSOLUTE POWER, AND PHYSICAL THOUGHT IN THE LATE MIDDLE AGES 4 GOD, SCIENCE, AND NATURAL PHILOSOPHY IN THE LATE MIDDLE AGES 5 MEDIEVAL DEPARTURES FROM ARISTOTELIAN NATURAL PHILOSOPHY 6 GOD AND THE MEDIEVAL COSMOS 7 SCIENTIFIC IMAGINATION IN THE MIDDLE AGES 8 MEDIEVAL NATURAL PHILOSOPHY: EMPIRICISM WITHOUT OBSERVATION 9 SCIENCE AND THEOLOGY IN THE MIDDLE AGES 10 THE FATE OF ANCIENT GREEK NATURAL PHILOSOPHY IN THE MIDDLE AGES: ISLAM AND WESTERN CHRISTIANITY 11 WHAT WAS NATURAL PHILOSOPHY IN THE LATE MIDDLE AGES? 12 ARISTOTELIANISM AND THE LONGEVITY OF THE MEDIEVAL WORLDVIEW