Experimental Science in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries

Abstract

THERE is a periodic urge to reinterpret in terms of philosophy the current view of the mechanism of the universe. This need declares itself to-day in regard to problems raised by recent investigations and conceptions in many departments. It leads also to a fresh examination of older interpretations of the scientific point of view.

A History of Magic and Experimental Science

By Prof. Lynn Thorndike. Vols. 3 and 4: Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries. (History of Science Society Publications, New Series, 4.) Vol. 3. Pp. xxvi + 827. Vol.4. Pp. xviii + 767. (New York: Columbia University Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1934.) 2 vols., 50s. net.