{"product_id":"9780198241898-robert-grosseteste-and-the-origins-of-experimental-science-1100-1700","title":"Robert Grosseteste and the Origins of Experimental Science 1100-1700","description":"\u003cp\u003eCrombie shows how the particular intellectual and practical  interests of Western thinkers, especially from the 12th century,  led them to ask particular kinds of questions about the natural  world. In the 13th century the Oxford School, with Robert  Grosseteste as its founder, assumed a paramount importance and  the work of this school marked the beginning of the modern  tradition of experimental science. The first half of the book is  devoted to Grosseteste and the Oxford school; the second half  deals with their influences on the spread of the experimental  method in Western Christendom and with its history down to  Newton. The study of optics and of the rainbow had a special  place in the interests of the Oxford school and the history of  these subjects is used to provide examples of the experimental  method in operation. `...this is one of the most stimulating and  carefully prepared studies in medieval science ... nowhere else  do we have so much material assembled for the study of medieval  scientific methodology.' Marshall Clagett in  Isis .\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Grocer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48297636528347,"sku":"9780198241898","price":25.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/11d0244c-0b60-4b13-999b-7df71ce9acad.jpg?v=1771936912","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/9780198241898-robert-grosseteste-and-the-origins-of-experimental-science-1100-1700","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}