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Title:
Warriors of the cloisters : the Central Asian origins of science in the medieval world
Author:
Beckwith, Christopher I., 1945-
ISBN:
9781400845170
Publication Information:
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2012.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xvi, 211 pages)
Abstract:
Warriors of the Cloisters tells how key cultural innovations from Central Asia revolutionized medieval Europe and gave rise to the culture of science in the West. Medieval scholars rarely performed scientific experiments, but instead contested issues in natural science, philosophy, and theology using the recursive argument method. This highly distinctive and unusual method of disputation was a core feature of medieval science, the predecessor of modern science. We know that the foundations of science were imported to Western Europe from the Islamic world, but until now the origins of.
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