Science and religion, 400 B.C. to A.D. 1550 :/ from Aristotle to Copernicus Edward Grant.

1. Introduction
The Middle Ages: A Time of Ignorance and
Barbarism? Or a Period of Striking Irmovation?
Religion and Science among the Greeks prior to the
Emergence of Christianity
The Propagation of Science
Brief Descriptions of Chapters 2-8
2. Aristotle and the Beginnings of Two Thousand
Years of Natural Philosophy
Life
Works
Achievements
Aristotle's Cosmos and Natural Philosophy
The Scope of Natural Philosophy
3. Science and Natural Philosophy in the Roman
Empire
The Pre-Socratic Natural Philosophers
The Emergence and Development of the Sciences in
the Greek World
The Life Sciences
The Exact Sciences
Greek Science in the Roman Empire to the Sixth
Century a.d.
4. The First Six Centuries of Christianity: Christian
Attitudes toward Greek Philosophy and Science
The Mystery Religions and Astrology
The Triumph of Christianity in the Roman World
Christianity and the Pagan Intellectual World
Commentaries on Genesis (Hexameral Treatises): The
Christian Understanding of the Creation of the World
5. The Emergence of a New Europe after the
Barbarian Invasions
The Latin Encyclopedists
Western Europe at Its Nadir
The New Europe in the Twelfth Century
The Begirmings of the New Natural Philosophy
6. The Medieval Universities and the Impact of
Aristotle's Natural Philosophy
The Translations of Aristotle's Books on Natural
Philosophy
Universities in the Middle Ages
Types of Literature in Natural Philosophy
The Relations between Natural Philosophy and
Theology in the Thirteenth Century
Is Theology a Science?
7. The Interrelations between Natural Philosophy
and Theology in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth
Centuries
The Influence of the Condemnation of 1277 on
Natural Philosophy
The Impact of Religion on Natural Philosophy in
the Middle Ages
The Role of Natural Philosophy in Theology
The Significance and Meaning of the Interaction
between Natural Philosophy and Theology
8. Relations between Science and Religion in the
Byzantine Empire, the World of Islam, and the
Latin West
The Byzantine Empire
Islam
The Latin West
Primary Sources
1. Roger Bacon, The "Opus Majus" of Roger Bacon
2. Giles of Rome, Errores Philosophorum
3. Saint Bonaventure, On the Eternity of the World
(De Aeternitate Mundi)
4. Saint Thomas Aquinas, On the Eternity of the
World (De Aeternitate Mundi)
5. Albert of Saxony, Questions on [Aristotle's] On
the Heavens
6. Nicole Oresme, Le Livre du del et du monde