Before Galileo: The Birth of Modern Science in Medieval Europe

摘要

John Freely Overlook Press 352 pp. £18.51 (2012) A thousand years before Galileo, the transmission of knowledge that survived the burning of the ancient Library of Alexandria began. Physicist John Freely traces this "tenuous Ariadne's thread" of classical learning that unspooled from Egypt through Byzantium and the Islamic world, finally emerging as Latin texts.