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Before the reintroduction of separated text (spaces between words) in the Late Middle Ages, the ability to read silently may have been considered rather remarkable, though some scholars object to this idea. [2] [3] [4] In contrast, reading aloud activates many more parts of the brain due to the dual-route of feedback when pronouncing and reading.
A source book in medieval science. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-82360-5. Hannam, James (2011). The Genesis of Science: How the Christian Middle Ages Launched the Scientific Revolution. Washington, DC: Regnery. p. 454. ISBN 978-1-59698-155-3. Huff, Toby E. (2003). The rise of early modern science: Islam, China, and the West ...
The book was shortlisted in 2010 for the Royal Society Prize for Science Books. The judges said: "A vibrant insight into the medieval approach to science, full of wonderful anecdotes and personalities. Dispelling common myths about the ‘dark ages’, this is a very readable book about a neglected era in the history of science.
A volvelle from a sixteenth-century edition of Sacrobosco's De Sphaera. De sphaera mundi (Latin title meaning On the Sphere of the World, sometimes rendered The Sphere of the Cosmos; the Latin title is also given as Tractatus de sphaera, Textus de sphaera, or simply De sphaera) is a medieval introduction to the basic elements of astronomy written by Johannes de Sacrobosco (John of Holywood) c ...
The book on surgery in particular was the definitive treatise in Europe and the Islamic world for hundreds of years. The Venerable Bede He made original discoveries concerning the nature of the tides and his works on computus became required elements of the training of clergy , and thus greatly influenced early medieval knowledge of the natural ...
Her book Meanings of Sex Difference in the Middle Age: Medicine, Science, and Culture (1993) received the 1994 Pfizer Award for outstanding book on the history of science from the History of Science Society. [15] It was the first book on gender studies, and the first book in thirty years on medieval studies, to win that award. [6]
Another book by Thorndike about magic and science is Science and Thought in the Fifteenth Century (1929). Thorndike also wrote The History of Medieval Europe (1917, 3d ed. 1949) and translated the medieval astronomical textbook De sphaera mundi of Johannes de Sacrobosco .
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