History of science

Geistliche Aspekte mittelalterlicher Naturlehre

Symposion 30. November bis 2. Dezember 1990

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Wie lässt sich pagan-antike Naturphilosophie und Naturkunde mit dem christlichen Glauben vereinbaren? Diese Frage stellte für das Mittelalter kein akademisch-theoretisches Problem dar, sondern ein Anliegen, das die Deutung der Welt, der menschlichen Existenz und der Ethik unmittelbar betraf. Die Antworten, …

The works of Yahya ibn Adi

An analytical inventory

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The fame of the Jacobite Christian Abu Zakariyya Yahya ibn ’Adi (893-974) as in influential philosopher and as en eminent apologist of the Christian faith has been founded on reputation rather than on the study of his work. When Augustin …

Philo of Byzantium. Pneumatica

The first Treatise on Experimental Phyics: Western Vesion and Eastern Version. Facsimile and Transcript of the Latin Manuscript, Codex Latinus Monacensis 534, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München

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Philo, from the Greek colony of Byzantium, was active in Alexandria and Rhodos about 200 BC. He is famous as one of the earliest teachers of military engineering, and is known to have written technical and scientific works, including one …