ABSTRACT
First published in 2005, this encyclopedia demonstrates that the millennium from the fall of the Roman Empire to the Renaissance was a period of great intellectual and practical achievement and innovation. In Europe, the Islamic world, South and East Asia, and the Americas, individuals built on earlier achievements, introduced sometimes radical refinements and laid the foundations for modern development.
Medieval Science, Technology, and Medicine details the whole scope of scientific knowledge in the medieval period in more than 300 A to Z entries. This comprehensive resource discusses the research, application of knowledge, cultural and technology exchanges, experimentation, and achievements in the many disciplines related to science and technology. It also looks at the relationship between medieval science and the traditions it supplanted.
Written by a select group of international scholars, this reference work will be of great use to scholars, students, and general readers researching topics in many fields, including medieval studies, world history, history of science, history of technology, history of medicine, and cultural studies.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|530 pages
Entries A - Z
chapter |68 pages
A
entry |2 pages
Abelard, Peter
entry |3 pages
Abraham Bar Hiyya
entry |2 pages
Abu Ma‘shar
entry |2 pages
Adelard of Bath
entry |4 pages
Agriculture
entry |2 pages
Agrimensores
entry |4 pages
Agronomy
entry |3 pages
Albert of Saxony
entry |5 pages
Albertus Magnus
entry |4 pages
Alchemy
entry |2 pages
Alderotti, Taddeo
entry |2 pages
Alfonso, Pedro
entry |3 pages
Alfonso X the Wise
entry |2 pages
Alfred of Sareschel
entry |3 pages
Algebra
entry |3 pages
Almanacs
entry |2 pages
Alum
entry |3 pages
Anatomy
entry |2 pages
Andalusi, Sa‘id al-
entry |5 pages
Aquinas, Thomas
entry |2 pages
Arabic Numerals
entry |3 pages
Archimedes
entry |5 pages
Aristotelianism
entry |3 pages
Arithmetic
entry |4 pages
Arms and Armor
entry |3 pages
Arnau de Vilanova
entry |2 pages
Articella
entry |4 pages
Artillery and Firearms
entry |5 pages
Astrolabes and Quadrants
entry |4 pages
Astrology
entry |3 pages
Astronomy, Islamic
entry |3 pages
Astronomy, Latin
chapter |40 pages
B
entry |6 pages
Bacon, Roger
entry |3 pages
Bartholomaeus Anglicus
entry |2 pages
Bartholomaeus of Bruges
entry |2 pages
Bartholomaeus of Salerno
entry |2 pages
Bartolomeo da Varignana
entry |2 pages
Battani, al-
entry |2 pages
Bayt al-Hikma
entry |3 pages
Bede
entry |2 pages
Benzi, Ugo
entry |2 pages
Bernard de Gordon
entry |2 pages
Bernard of Verdun
entry |2 pages
Bernard Silvester
entry |2 pages
Bestiaries
entry |3 pages
Biruni, al-
entry |5 pages
Boethius
entry |2 pages
Boethius of Dacia
entry |2 pages
Borgognoni, Teodorico
entry |3 pages
Botany
entry |3 pages
Bradwardine, Thomas
entry |3 pages
Bredon, Simon
entry |2 pages
Brewing
entry |2 pages
Bridges
entry |2 pages
Burgundio of Pisa
entry |4 pages
Buridan, John
chapter |41 pages
C
entry |3 pages
Calendar
entry |4 pages
Campanus de Novara
entry |2 pages
Canals
entry |4 pages
Cartography
entry |4 pages
Catapults and Trebuchets
entry |2 pages
Cathedral Schools
entry |3 pages
Cecco d’Ascoli
entry |3 pages
Chaucer, Geoffrey
entry |2 pages
Clepsydra
entry |4 pages
Clocks and Timekeeping
entry |2 pages
Coinage, Minting of
entry |3 pages
Columbus, Christopher
entry |3 pages
Commercial Arithmetic
entry |5 pages
Communication
entry |3 pages
Computus
entry |3 pages
Condemnation of 1277
entry |3 pages
Consilia
entry |3 pages
Constantine the African
entry |4 pages
Cosmology
chapter |6 pages
D
entry |2 pages
Despars, Jacques
entry |3 pages
Dioscorides
entry |3 pages
Duns Scotus, Johannes
chapter |12 pages
E
entry |3 pages
Elements and Qualities
entry |3 pages
Encyclopedias
entry |4 pages
Eriugena, John Scottus
entry |4 pages
Euclid
entry |2 pages
Eyeglasses
chapter |10 pages
F
entry |4 pages
Farabi, al-
entry |3 pages
Fibonacci, Leonardo
entry |2 pages
Fihrist
entry |2 pages
Fishing
entry |2 pages
Food Storage and Preservation
entry |2 pages
Frederick II
entry |1 pages
Frugard, Roger
chapter |38 pages
G
entry |4 pages
Galen
entry |3 pages
Gender in Medicine and Natural History
entry |2 pages
Generation
entry |2 pages
Gentile da Foligno
entry |6 pages
Geography, Chorography
entry |2 pages
Gerard of Cremona
entry |3 pages
Gerbert of Aurillac
entry |3 pages
Ghazali, al-
entry |2 pages
Gilbertus Anglicus
entry |2 pages
Giles of Rome
entry |2 pages
Gilles de Corbeil
entry |3 pages
Glassmaking
entry |4 pages
God in Christianity
entry |2 pages
God in Islam
entry |4 pages
Grosseteste, Robert
entry |3 pages
Gundisalvo, Domingo
entry |4 pages
Gunpowder
entry |2 pages
Guy de Chauliac
entry |4 pages
Gynecology and Midwifery
chapter |20 pages
H
entry |2 pages
Henri de Mondeville
entry |3 pages
Herbals
entry |2 pages
Hermann of Carinthia
entry |2 pages
Heytesbury, William of
entry |3 pages
Hildegard of Bingen
entry |3 pages
Hippocrates
entry |3 pages
Hospitals
entry |2 pages
House Building, Housing
entry |3 pages
Hugh of Saint-Victor
entry |2 pages
Hugh of Santalla
entry |3 pages
Hunayn Ibn Ishaq
entry |3 pages
Hylomorphism
chapter |42 pages
I
entry |4 pages
Ibn al-Haytham
entry |2 pages
Ibn al-Saffar
entry |2 pages
Ibn al-Samh
entry |2 pages
Ibn al-Zarqalluh
entry |4 pages
Ibn Bajja
entry |2 pages
Ibn Buklarish
entry |4 pages
Ibn Ezra, Abraham
entry |3 pages
Ibn Gabirol, Solomon Ben Judah (Avicebron)
entry |2 pages
Ibn Majid, Ahmad
entry |4 pages
Ibn Rushd
entry |4 pages
Ibn Sina
entry |3 pages
Ibn Zuhr
entry |1 pages
Idrisi, al-
entry |2 pages
Illumination
entry |3 pages
Illustration, Medical
entry |4 pages
Illustration, Scientific
entry |3 pages
Impetus
entry |3 pages
Instruments, Agricultural
entry |2 pages
Instruments, Medical
entry |4 pages
Irrigation and Drainage
entry |2 pages
Isaac Judaeus
entry |3 pages
Isidore of Seville
chapter |17 pages
J
entry |3 pages
Jabir Ibn Hayyan (Geber)
entry |2 pages
Jacopo da Forlì
entry |1 pages
James of Venice
entry |3 pages
Jean de Meurs
entry |3 pages
Johannes de Glogovia
entry |2 pages
Johannes de Sancto Paulo
entry |2 pages
John of Arderne
entry |1 pages
John of Gaddesden
entry |2 pages
John of Gmunden
entry |2 pages
John of Sacrobosco
entry |2 pages
John of Saint-Amand
entry |1 pages
John of Saxony
entry |2 pages
John of Seville
entry |3 pages
Jordanus de Nemore
chapter |7 pages
K
entry |2 pages
Khayyam, ‘Umar al-
entry |2 pages
Khwarizmi, al-
entry |3 pages
Kilwardby, Robert
entry |2 pages
Kindi, al-
entry |3 pages
Kosmas Indikopleustês
chapter |12 pages
L
entry |2 pages
Lanfranco of Milan
entry |2 pages
Lapidaries
entry |2 pages
“Latin Averroists”
entry |2 pages
Latitude of Forms
entry |2 pages
Leather Production
entry |2 pages
Liuzzi, Mondino De’
entry |5 pages
Logic
entry |2 pages
Lombard, Peter
chapter |39 pages
M
entry |2 pages
Macrobius
entry |3 pages
Magic and the Occult
entry |2 pages
Magnet and Magnetism
entry |4 pages
Maimonides
entry |2 pages
Majusi, al-
entry |2 pages
Mandeville, John
entry |2 pages
Mark of Toledo
entry |3 pages
Marsilius of Inghen
entry |2 pages
Martianus Capella
entry |3 pages
Masha’allah
entry |1 pages
Maslama of Madrid
entry |2 pages
Maurus of Salerno
entry |2 pages
Medicine, Practical
entry |5 pages
Medicine, Theoretical
entry |3 pages
Metaphysics
entry |3 pages
Meteorology
entry |2 pages
Michael Scot
entry |3 pages
Microcosm/Macrocosm
entry |3 pages
Military Architecture
entry |2 pages
Mineralogy
entry |3 pages
Monsters
entry |2 pages
Monte Cassino
entry |4 pages
Music Theory
chapter |15 pages
N
entry |3 pages
Natural History
entry |5 pages
Nature: Diverse Medieval Interpretations
entry |2 pages
Nature: The Structure of the Physical World
entry |3 pages
Navigation (Arab)
entry |2 pages
Nequam, Alexander
entry |2 pages
Niccolò Da Reggio
entry |2 pages
Nicholas of Salerno
entry |4 pages
Noria
chapter |6 pages
O
entry |4 pages
Optics and Catoptrics
entry |3 pages
Oresme, Nicole
chapter |51 pages
P
entry |5 pages
Paints, Pigments, Dyes
entry |3 pages
Paper
entry |3 pages
Patronage of Science
entry |1 pages
Pecham, John
entry |2 pages
Peter Peregrinus
entry |4 pages
Petrus Hispanus
entry |2 pages
Peuerbach, Georg
entry |2 pages
Pharmaceutic Handbooks
entry |4 pages
Pharmacology
entry |3 pages
Pharmacy and Materia Medica
entry |4 pages
Physiognomy
entry |3 pages
Pierre D’ailly
entry |2 pages
Pietro D’abano
entry |5 pages
Plague Tractates
entry |4 pages
Planetary Tables
entry |3 pages
Plato
entry |2 pages
Polo, Marco
entry |4 pages
Pottery
entry |5 pages
Printing
entry |2 pages
Profatius Judaeus
entry |3 pages
Pseudo-Aristotle
entry |3 pages
Psychology
entry |4 pages
Ptolemy
chapter |2 pages
Q
entry |2 pages
Quadrivium
chapter |17 pages
R
entry |2 pages
Ravenna
entry |3 pages
Razi, al-
entry |3 pages
Reason
entry |2 pages
Regimen Sanitatis
entry |3 pages
Regiomontanus, Johannes
entry |3 pages
Religion and Science
entry |2 pages
Richard of Middleton
entry |4 pages
Richard Rufus of Cornwall
entry |4 pages
Roads
chapter |18 pages
S
entry |2 pages
Salernitan Questions
entry |2 pages
Salerno
entry |3 pages
Scholasticism
entry |4 pages
Scientia
entry |4 pages
Shipbuilding
entry |2 pages
Siger of Brabant
entry |4 pages
South-Central Asian Science
entry |4 pages
Surgery
entry |1 pages
Swineshead, Richard
chapter |26 pages
T
entry |2 pages
Tacuinum Sanitatis
entry |3 pages
Technological Diffusion
entry |2 pages
Thabit Ibn Qurra
entry |2 pages
Theodoric of Freiberg
entry |2 pages
Theorica Planetarum
entry |1 pages
Thierry of Chartres
entry |3 pages
Thomas of Cantimpré
entry |4 pages
Toledo
entry |2 pages
Torrigiano De’ Torrigiani
entry |5 pages
Translation Movements
entry |3 pages
Translation Norms and Practice
entry |3 pages
Transportation
entry |3 pages
Travel and Exploration
entry |2 pages
Trotula
entry |2 pages
Tusi, Nasir Al-Din al-
chapter |6 pages
U
entry |5 pages
Universities
entry |1 pages
Uqlidisi, al-
entry |2 pages
Urso of Calabria
chapter |4 pages
V
entry |2 pages
Vincent of Beauvais
entry |3 pages
Vocabulary
chapter |20 pages
W
entry |4 pages
Water Supplies and Sewerage
entry |4 pages
Watermills
entry |3 pages
Weights and Measures
entry |2 pages
Weights, Science of
entry |2 pages
William of Conches
entry |2 pages
William of Moerbeke
entry |3 pages
William of Ockham
entry |2 pages
Windmills
entry |3 pages
Witelo
entry |3 pages
Women in Science
chapter |6 pages
Z
entry |2 pages
Zacuto, Abraham
entry |3 pages
Zahrawi, al-
entry |4 pages
Zoology
