The identity of natural philosophy. A response to Edward Grant

Early Science and Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 259-278

  Cunningham, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 77952445058     PISSN: 13837427     EISSN: 15733823     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/157338200X00227     Document Type: Review

References (27)

1. Edward Grant, "God, Science, and Natural Philosophy in the Late Middle Ages," in Betweee Demonstratton and Imagination. Essays in the History of Science and Philosophy Presented to John D. North, eds. Lodi Nauta and Arjo Vanderjagt (Leiden: Brill, 1999) 243-67.
2. John A. Schuster, "The Scientific Revolution," in Companion to the History of Modern Sciencee eds. R.C. Olby et al. (London: Routledge, 1990) 217-42, p. 224.
3. John Murdoch, "Philosophy and die Enterprise of Science in the Later Middle Ages," in The Interaction Between Science and Philosophy, ed. Y. Elkana (Atlantic Heights, N.J.: Humanities Press, 1974) 51-113, p. 52.
4. Andrew Cunningham, "Getting the Game Right: Some Plain Words on the Identity and Invention of Science," Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 19 (1988): 365-89.
5. Andrew Cunningham, "How the Principia got its Name," History of Sciencc 29 (1991): 377-92.
6. Andrew Cunningham and Perry Williams, "De-centring the "Big Picture": The Origins of Modern Science and the Modern Origins of Science," British Journal for the History of Science 26 (1993): 407-32.
7. Roger French and Andrew Cunningham, Before Sciencee The Invention of the Friars' Natural Philosophy (Aldershot: Scolar, 1996).
8. Andrew Cunningham, "Sir Thomas Browne and his Religio Medici: Reason, Nature and Religion," in Re.ligio Medici: Medicine and Religion in Seventeenth Century England, eds. Ole Peter Grell and Andrew Cunningham (Aldershot: Scolar, 1996) 12-61;
9. Projectt of the Ancients (Aldershot: Scolar, 1997);
10. "Science and Religion in the 13th Century Revisited: The Making of St Francis the Proto-Ecologist. Part 1: Creature not Nature, Studies in Histoiy and Philosophy of Science (A) (forthcoming, 2000).
11. ■' Out of the 274 pages of text and notes of Beforr Sciencee the only pages to which Grant, refers or gives a reference are Iive pages of the Epilogue (pp. 269-73).
12. Edward Grant, The Foundations of Modern Science in the Middle Ages. Their Re ligious, Institutional, and Intellectual Contexts (Cambridge: Cambridge University-Press, 1996), pp. 8-9, 84-5.
13. He speaks of investigating possible instances of 'the intrusion of God, His creation and theology into natural philosophy' or vice versa (p. 246);
14. He asks whether the medieval commentators were trying 'to intrude as much religious material as possible into their investigations into natural questions' (p. 247);
15. He counts and classifies the occasions ̀where God and matters of faith are intruded into commentaries and questions on Aristotle's natural books' (p. 248);
16. He says that 'a treatise on cosmology was an ideal place' for Roger Bacon 'to intrude thoughts about God and the faith', but he chose not to do so (p. 251);
17. He says that Albertus Magnus makes it clear that 'unless unavoidable, theology should not be intruded into natural philosophy' (p. 252);
18. He says that Thomas Aquinas, like Albertus 'sought to minimize theological intrusions into his commentaries on the books of Aristotle' (p. 255).
19. He says: 'the most important reason why theology did not significantly penetrate natural philosophy is simply that while theology needed natural philosophy, natural philosophy did not need theology' (p. 265).
20. Cunningham, "How the Principia got its Name," pp.382-3.
21. Cunningham and Williams, De-centring the Big Picture, p. 424.
22. in Jordanus de Nemore, "Liber Jordani de Ponderibus," The Medieval Science of Weights (Scientta de Ponderrbus). Treatises Ascribed to Euclid, Archimedes, Thabit ibn Qurra, Jordanus de Nemore and Blasius of Parma, eds. Ernest A. Moody and Marshall Clagett (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1952).
23. Edward Grant, ed., A Source Book in Medieval Science (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1974).
24. Adrian Wilson and T.G. Ashplant, "Whig History and Present-centred History," The Historicaljournal 31 (1988), 1-16,
25. T. G. Ashplant and Adrian Wilson, "Present-cenrred History and the Problem of Historical Knowledge," The Historical Journal 31 (1988), 253-74.
26. Edith D. Sylla and Michael R. McVaugh, "Introduction"" Texts and Contexts in Ancient and Medieval Science, eds. Edith D. Sylla and Michael R. McVaugh (Leiden: Brill, 1997),
27. Grant, Foundations of Modern Sciencee pp. 174-6.