Sunday, August 23, 2009

book blurb...GOD’S PHILOSOPHERS: HOW THE MEDIEVAL WORLD LAID THE FOUNDATIONS OF MODERN SCIENCE...by James Hannam..

from spectator.uk.co: In God’s Philosophers, Hannam has pursed his cheeks and attempted to puff away the common notion that nothing of scientific significance happened in Christendom between the fall of Rome and the birth of Galileo. Or, as he puts it, he wants to kill off the idea ‘that there was no science worth mentioning in the Middle Ages … [and] that the Church held back what meagre advances were made’.