Grant illuminates how today's scientific culture originated with the religious thinkers of the Middle Ages.

Natural philosophy encompassed all natural phenomena of the physical world.

Entertaining and provoking, this book shows readers how the technology that has promised a lifetime of convenience has also constrained a public’s individual options and agency. But all hope is not lost.

2 result of the attitudes characteristic of the small group of permanent residents at the schools, the academic scholars.

As they neared the Mercat Cross, Jamie saw the red-coated soldiers, the horse-drawn cart with two prisoners, and townspeople gathering, their breath smoking in the frigid air.