Science and Technology in World History v2 Early Christianity the Rise of Islam and the Middle Ages by David Deming (2010).pdf

Science and Technology

in World History

Volume 2

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Science and Technology

in World History

Volume 2: Early Christianity,

the Rise of Islam and the Middle Ages

D AVID D EMING

McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers

Jefferson, North Carolina, and London

The history of science is the history of mankind’s unity,

of its sublime purpose, of its gradual redemption.

— George Sarton (1884 –1956)

L IBRARY OF C ONGRESS C ATALOGUING - IN -P UBLICATION D ATA

Deming, David, ¡954 –

Science and technology in world history / David Deming.

v. cm.

v. ¡. The ancient world and classical civilization — v. 2. Early

Christianity, the rise of Islam and the Middle Ages.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-7864-3932-4 (v. 1 : softcover : 50# alk. paper) —

ISBN 978-0-7864-5839-4 (v. 2 : softcover : 50# alk. paper)

¡. Science — History. 2. Technology — History. 3. World history. I. Title

Q¡25.D334 20¡0

20¡0008935

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On the cover: lllustrated plate from L’atmosphere: meteorologie populaire ,

Camille Flammarion, 1888; (background) Plate 1 of the Harmonia

Macrocosmica , Andreas Cellarius, 1661

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