History of Science: Antiquity to 1700

Medieval Physics and Earth Sciences (1x23)

Yayınlanma tarihi: Oca 01, 2003

This lecture looks at medieval developments in astronomy and the physics of motion. Examples show how medieval questions could have surprising results; how medieval natural philosophers used and disagreed with Aristotle; and how results of medieval speculation and calculation laid the foundations of the modern science of kinematics.