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ANCIENT v. MEDIEVAL

Third Programme
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by M. A. Hoskin , Ph.D.
Lecturer in the History of Science,
University of Cambridge
It is still too readily assumed that the scientific revolution stemmed from a re-discovery and reshaping of ancient philosophy after the barrenness of the Middle Ages. Today historians of science differ in the significance they attribute to medieval natural philosophy. Dr. Hoskin considers some recent contributions to this problem.

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