Economy and nature in the fourteenth century
money, market exchange, and the emergence of scientific thought
by Joel Kaye
This book provides new perspectives on the ways in which scholastic natural philosophy anticipated and contributed to the emergence of scientific thought. Historians of medieval science have hesitated to step outside the sphere of intellectual culture in their search for factors influencing proto-scientific thought. This book searches for influences both within and beyond university culture, and argues that the transformation of the conceptual model of the natural world c.1260-1380 was strongly influenced by the contemporary rapid monetisation of European society. It analyses the impact of the monetised market place on the most characteristic concern of natural philosophy of the period: its preoccupation with measurement, gradation, and the quantification of qualities.
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Exchange, History, Medieval Science, Money, Nonfiction, Philosophy, Science, Medieval, Money, history, Science, history, Monnaie, Histoire, Échange, Théorie de l' (Économie politique), Sciences médiévales, Philosophie, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS, Money & Monetary Policy, Geldverkeer, Economische filosofie, Échange, Économie politique| Edition | Availability |
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Economy and Nature in the Fourteenth Century
1998, Cambridge University Press
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Economy and nature in the fourteenth century: money, market exchange, and the emergence of scientific thought
1998, Cambridge University Press
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-266) and index.
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