title: The Beginnings of Western Science: The European Scientific Tradition in Philosophical, Religious, and Institutional Context, 600 B.C. to A.D. 1450
author:  David C. Lindberg 
description: This is the best history of ancient and medieval science that has been written for many years. It will replace the smaller two volumes by G.E.R. Lloyd, Early Greek Science: Thales to Aristotle (Norton, 1971) and Greek Science After Aristotle ( LJ 1/15/74). Lindberg's book not only reflects more recent research but is also much easier to read and provides major themes more clearly. Delineating 2000 years of science in all its varieties, from the physical sciences and mathematics to medicine and biology, Lindberg provides social, intellectual, and religious background and shows each development or theme in its appropriate historical context. The book is geared toward interested and educated lay readers and college students, who can use it as an introductory textbook on the early history of science. It is extensively illustrated and has a very good 35-page bibliography, making it a useful reference source as well. Highly recommended for most libraries.<br /><i>- Eric D. Albright, Galter Health Sciences Lib., Northwestern Univ., Chicago</i><br />Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
zlib_text: Cambridge Companions Online © Cambridge University Press, 2006
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  Introduction: Brentano’s
  philosophy
  brentano’s scientiﬁc revolution
  Brentano is among the most important yet under-appreciated
  philosophers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He
  led an intellectual revolution that sought to reverse what was then
  the prevalent post-Kantian trend of German-Austrian philosophy in
  the direction of an Aristotelian scientific methodology. At the same
  time, he made valuable contributions to philosophical psychology,
  metaphysics, ontology, value theory, epistemology, the reform of syl-
  logistic logic, philosophical theology and theodicy, and the history
  of philosophy and philosophical methodology.
  By revitalizing Austrian scientific philosophy, Brentano and his
  school simultaneously laid the groundwork for twentieth-century
  philosophy of science as it came to fruition in the logical positivism
  of the Vienna Circle, for the Gegenstandstheorie or object theory of
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