Isidore of Seville, on the Nature of Things

Informationen zum Autor Calvin B. Kendall is Emeritus Professor of English, University of Minnesota. Faith Wallis is Associate Professor in the Department of History at McGill University, Montreal. Klappentext Isidore of Seville's On the Nature of Things, the first attempt by a Christian author to present an account of the physical universe - the heavens, planets and stars, earth and its physical features, weather and time - played an exceptionally influential role in the assimilation of classical science into the emerging Christian culture of medieval Europe.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Isidore, Calvin B Kendall, Calvin B. Kendall
• Collaboration: Calvin B Kendall (Traduction), Calvin B. Kendall (Traduction), Faith Wallis (Traduction)
• Edition: Liverpool University Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 01.05.2016
• EAN: 9781781382936
• ISBN: 978-1-78138-293-6
• Pages: 304
• Thèmes: Translated Texts for Historian; Translated Texts for Historian
• Catégories: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Histoire > Antiquité; Sciences naturelles, médecine, informatique, technique > Sciences de la Terre > Général, dictionnaires