The Genesis of Science : How the Christian Middle Ages Launched the Scientific Revolution (Hardcover)

from Medievalgirl

It seems that I sometimes have and controversial and nonconformist taste in history books. I don't generally like tabloid style, sensationalistic controversy for its own sake, especially if this is based on dubious assumptions or modern judgement- but sometimes controversy might spark my interest...

from PaulBread

This is an entertaining read. And if you know as little about mediaeval science as I do, it's very instructive. But it sets out to be much more than that. It proudly proclaims on the cover that it was shortlisted for the 2010 Royal Society Prize for Science books. I don't know how that came about...

from The_Hibernator

Hannam makes the argument that the development in philosophical thinking and study of the natural world in the middle ages is the cornerstone on which science was built during the later "scientific revolution" and that the role of the Catholic Church and medieval philosophy in the development of ...

from hardlyhardy

The Dark Ages weren't nearly as dark as we have been led to believe. So argues James Hannam in his 2009 book "The Genesis of Science: How the Christian Middles Ages Launched the Scientific Revolution." Historians have told us that human progress pretty much came to a standstill during the Middle ...