CONTENTS 



BOOK II 

 CHAPTER I 



SCIENCE IN THE DARK AGE 



Distinction between classical and mediaeval epochs, p. 3 Learning 

 of the time centred in the priesthood, p. 4 Effect of Oriental 

 superstition on science, p. 6 Age of extant manuscripts, p. 7 

 Scarcity of manuscripts, p. 9 Preservation of Western literature 

 by the Arabs, p. n. 



CHAPTER II 



MEDIAEVAL SCIENCE AMONG THE ARABIANS 



Scientific studies of Arabian scholars, p. 13 Evidences of Arabian 

 practicality in measuring the earth, p. 14 Albategnius, the Ara- 

 bian astronomer, p. 15 Arabian centres of learning, p. 17 Al- 

 hazen, p. 18 His conception in the fields of astronomy and physics, 

 p. 19 Geber the chemist, p. 20 Arabian medicine, p. 21 Ara- 

 bian hospitals, p. 26. 



CHAPTER III 



MEDIAEVAL SCIENCE IN THE WEST 



Byzantine medicine, p. 31 Thirteenth-century medicine, p. 33 

 Arnold and the search for a drug to produce insensibility, p. 34 

 (Peter of Abano, p. 36 Practice of dissection reintroduced into Eu- 

 jrope, p. 37 Guy of Chauliac, p. 38 Fifteenth-century medicine, 

 jp. 39 Scepticism as to ancient authorities, p. 40 Recovery of the 

 Uost De Medicine of Cornelius Celsus, p. 40 The question of "re- 

 pulsion" or "derivation," p. 40 Treatment of gun-shot wounds as 

 advocated by John of Vigo, p. 41 New beginnings in general 

 science, p. 42 Roger Bacon, p. 44 His discoveries and teachings, 

 p. 45 Leonardo da Vinci, man of science, p. 47 His conception of 



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