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Connue de longue date pour ses visions, l'abbesse allemande Hildegarde de Bingen (1098-1179) a conquis ces dernières années un public de plus en plus large grâce à deux autres de ses dons. Cette bénédictine géniale, dont la longue vie fut particulièrement active, s'essaya en effet avec autant de succès à la musique et à la médecine, domaines dans lesquels peu de femmes ont laissé leur nom. Ses chants liturgiques (dont elle composa elle-même le texte et la musique) ont été conservés dans des manuscrits contemporains de leur auteur, et sont abondamment joués et enregistrés. Sa science naturelle en revanche, si elle séduit un nombre toujours croissant d'adeptes en quête d'alternatives à la médecine traditionnelle, ne présente pas les mêmes garanties de fiabilité : les préceptes médicaux de Hildegarde, que le public redécouvre aujourd'hui avec enthousiasme, nous ont été transmis par des manuscrits tardifs, et donc susceptibles d'avoir subi bon nombre de modifications. Les écrits scientifiques qu'elle conçut et rédigea se confondent-ils réellement avec ceux qui nous sont parvenus ? L'édition qu'on en donna à la Renaissance à Strasbourg fut-elle établie d'après un manuscrit aujourd'hui disparu, ou est-elle une belle infidèle ? Et si l'étonnant savoir naturaliste de Hildegarde est bien le sien, d'où cette moniale prétendûment inculte tenait-elle ces connaissances ? Autant de questions que l'auteur a tenté de résoudre en prenant ces traités médicaux en filature à travers les siècles : les résultats de l'enquête forment le récit des aventures et des avatars d'un oiseau rare, une œuvre scientifique composée par une femme hors du com¬mun dans l'Occident du XIIe siècle.

Science, Medieval. --- Medicine, Medieval.

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Science, Medieval. --- Science, Medieval --- Philosophy & Religion --- Philosophy --- Medieval science --- Albertus, --- Albert, --- Alberthus, --- Alberto, --- Albertus Magnus, --- Magnus Albertus, --- Velikiĭ Albert,

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Science, Medieval --- Medieval science --- Philosophy. --- Geschichte 1200-1500 --- Mental philosophy --- Humanities

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Warriors of the Cloisters tells how key cultural innovations from Central Asia revolutionized medieval Europe and gave rise to the culture of science in the West. Medieval scholars rarely performed scientific experiments, but instead contested issues in natural science, philosophy, and theology using the recursive argument method. This highly distinctive and unusual method of disputation was a core feature of medieval science, the predecessor of modern science. We know that the foundations of science were imported to Western Europe from the Islamic world, but until now the origins of such key elements of Islamic culture have been a mystery. In this provocative book, Christopher I. Beckwith traces how the recursive argument method was first developed by Buddhist scholars and was spread by them throughout ancient Central Asia. He shows how the method was adopted by Islamic Central Asian natural philosophers--most importantly by Avicenna, one of the most brilliant of all medieval thinkers--and transmitted to the West when Avicenna's works were translated into Latin in Spain in the twelfth century by the Jewish philosopher Ibn Da'ud and others. During the same period the institution of the college was also borrowed from the Islamic world. The college was where most of the disputations were held, and became the most important component of medieval Europe's newly formed universities. As Beckwith demonstrates, the Islamic college also originated in Buddhist Central Asia. Using in-depth analysis of ancient Buddhist, Classical Arabic, and Medieval Latin writings, Warriors of the Cloisters transforms our understanding of the origins of medieval scientific culture.

Science, Medieval --- Academic disputations --- Science --- History --- Science, Medieval. --- Academic disputations. --- Natural science --- Science of science --- Sciences --- Medieval science --- Disputations, Academic --- Debates and debating --- Dissertations, Academic --- Natural sciences --- Science - Asia, Central - History - To 1500

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This collection of essays reflects the wide range of David Pingree's expertise in the scientific texts (above all, concerning astronomy and astrology) of Ancient Mesopotamia, Greece, India, Persia, and the medieval Arabic, Hebrew and Latin traditions. Both theoretical aspects and the practical applications of the exact sciences-in time keeping, prediction of the future, and the operation of magic-are dealt with. The book includes several critical editions and translations of hitherto unknown or understudied texts, and a particular emphasis is on the diffusion of scientific learning from one culture to another, and through time. Above all, the essays show the variety and sophistication of the exact sciences in non-Western societies in pre-modern times.

Science, Medieval --- Science --- History --- Medieval science --- Middeleeuwse wetenschap --- Science [Medieval ] --- Science médiévale --- Wetenschap [Middeleeuwse ] --- 509 --- Sciences History --- Pingree, David --- India --- Islamic countries --- Science, Medieval. --- Physical Sciences & Mathematics --- Sciences - General --- Natural science --- Natural sciences --- Science of science --- Sciences --- History. --- Science - India - History --- Science - Islamic countries - History