Economy and Nature in the Fourteenth Century: Money, Market Exchange, and the Emergence of Scientific Thought (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521793865)

Intellectual developments pioneered by scholastic natural philosophers of the fourteenth century constituted a critical stage in the emergence of scientific thought. Beneath these technical developments lay a profound reconceptualization of nature. The purpose of this book is to analyze the components of this reconceptualization, and to speculate on the influences that shaped it. It argues that the transformation of the conceptual model of the natural world c. 1260-1380 was strongly influenced by the rapid monetization of European society during the same period.

Author: Joel Kaye
ISBN-10: 0521793866
ISBN-13: 9780521793865
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 10/05/2000
Pages: 286
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.97h x 6.03w x 0.72d