Economy and Nature in the Fourteenth Century : Money, Market Exchange, and the Emergence of Scientific Thought
by
Joel Kaye
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0521572762
ISBN-13
9780521572767
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Feb 12th, 1998
Print length
286 Pages
Weight
560 grams
Dimensions
15.90 x 23.70 x 2.20 cms
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A brilliant study of proto-scientific thought, arguing that the transformation of the conceptual model of the natural world c.1260–1380 was strongly influenced by rapid monetisation in European society.
This book provides perspectives on the ways in which scholastic natural philosophy anticipated and contributed to the emergence of scientific thought. Historians of medieval science have hesitated to step outside the sphere of intellectual culture in their search for factors influencing proto-scientific thought. This book searches for influences both within and beyond university culture, and argues that the transformation of the conceptual model of the natural world c.1260–1380 was strongly influenced by the contemporary rapid monetisation of European society. It analyses the impact of the monetised market place on the most characteristic concern of natural philosophy of the period: its preoccupation with measurement, gradation, and the quantification of qualities.
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