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Bachelors History University of Kansas

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According to Wikipedia, David Charles Lindberg was an American historian of science. His main focus was in the history of medieval and early modern science, especially physical science and the relationship between religion and science. Lindberg was the author or editor of many books and received numerous grants and awards. He also served as president of the History of Science Society and in 1999 was the recipient of its Sarton medal.

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Theories of vision from Al-Kindi to Kepler (1977) (441)
The beginnings of Western science : the European scientific tradition in philosophical, religious, and institutional context, 600 B.C. to A.D. 1450 (1992) (193)
The Beginnings of Western Science: The European Scientific Tradition in Philosophical (1993) (192)
The Beginnings of Western Science (1992) (177)
Reappraisals of the Scientific Revolution (1993) (166)
God and nature : historical essays on the encounter between Christianity and science (1986) (149)
Alhazen's Theory of Vision and Its Reception in the West (1967) (130)
When Science and Christianity Meet (2003) (99)
The Beginnings of Western Science: The European Scientific Tradition in Philosophical, Religious, and Institutional Context, Prehistory to A.D. 1450, Second Edition (2008) (91)
The Genesis of Kepler's Theory of Light: Light Metaphysics from Plotinus to Kepler (1986) (86)
Roger Bacon and the Origins of Perspectiva in the Middle Ages (1996) (83)
Science in the Middle Ages (1981) (75)
Science as Handmaiden: Roger Bacon and the Patristic Tradition (1987) (54)
Roger Bacon's philosophy of nature : a critical edition, with English translation, introduction, and notes, of De multiplicatione specierum and De speculis comburentibus (1983) (52)
John Pecham and the science of optics : Perspectiva communis (1972) (41)
The theory of Pinhole images from antiquity to the thirteenth century (1968) (38)
Beyond War and Peace: A Reappraisal of the Encounter between Christianity and Science (1986) (38)
Lines of Influence in Thirteenth-Century Optics: Bacon, Witelo, and Pecham (1971) (36)
Galileo: Man of Science (1968) (33)
Galileo Galilei: Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems—Ptolemaic & Copernican (1968) (26)
A catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance optical manuscripts (1975) (25)
Medieval Science and Its Religious Context (1995) (25)
The theory of Pinhole images in the fourteenth century (1970) (24)
Alkindi's Critique of Euclid's Theory of Vision (1971) (22)
Studies In The History Of Medieval Optics (1983) (19)
Roger Bacon's Theory of the Rainbow: Progress or Regress? (1966) (17)
On the Applicability of Mathematics to Nature: Roger Bacon and his Predecessors (1982) (16)
Science and the Early Christian Church (1983) (14)
A reconsideration of Roger Bacon's theory of pinhole images (1970) (13)
A system of complete medical police. Selections from Johann Peter Frank (1977) (12)
John Pecham and the Science of Optics (1972) (12)
Medieval Islamic Achievement in Optics (2003) (10)
The discourse of light from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment : papers read at a Clark Library seminar, 24 April, 1982 (1985) (10)
The fate of science in patristic and medieval Christendom (2010) (10)
When science & Christianity meet (2005) (10)
The Cause of Refraction in Medieval Optics (1968) (9)
THE SCIENCE OF LIGHT AND COLOR, SEEING AND KNOWING (2013) (6)
Arabic Science in the West (1968) (5)
Continuity and discontinuity in the history of optics: Kepler and the medieval tradition (1987) (5)
Galileo's Experiments on Falling Bodies (1965) (4)
An Edition of His Writings with Introductions, English Translation and Commentary by J. D. North. Richard of Wallingford , J. D. North (1978) (4)
Medieval Natural History (2013) (4)
New Light on an Old Story (1971) (3)
Book Review:Physico-mathesis de lumine, coloribus, et iride Francesco Maria Grimaldi (1969) (3)
Translation and Transmission of Greek and Islamic Science to Latin Christendom (2013) (3)
Before Science: The Invention of the Friars' Natural Philosophy by Roger French and Andrew Cunningham (review) (2016) (3)
Early-Medieval Cosmology, Astronomy, and Mathematics (2013) (2)
Change and Motion (2013) (2)
Kepler and the Incorporeality of Light (1991) (2)
The Organization of Knowledge: Disciplines and Practices (2013) (2)
ANATOMY, PHYSIOLOGY, AND MEDICAL THEORY (2013) (2)
Book Review:The Bible, Protestantism, and the Rise of Natural Science Peter Harrison (1999) (2)
THAT THE RISE OF CHRISTIANITY WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DEMISE OF ANCIENT SCIENCE (2009) (1)
Science in the Jewish Communities (2013) (1)
2. Galileo, the Church, and the Cosmos (2019) (1)
The Cambridge History of Science (2013) (1)
The Butterfield Thesis and the Scientific Revolution: Comments on Peter Harrison (2012) (1)
Natural Knowledge in the Early Middle Ages (2013) (1)
EARLY-MEDIEVAL MEDICINE AND NATURAL SCIENCE (2013) (1)
THE MIXED MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES (2013) (1)
The Savior of Science. Stanley L. Jaki (1990) (1)
Reappraisals of the Scientific Revolution, ed. by and (Cambridge:) (1990) (1)
On the History of Physics (1965) (1)
Part I: Human Exploration of the Physical Universe (2016) (0)
Summa theologiae vol. 10 by St. Thomas Aquinas (review) (2017) (0)
Annual Meeting of the History of Science Society 27-30 December 1981 (1982) (0)
17th-Century Issues: The Scientific Revolution. (1996) (0)
Science Deified and Science Defied: The Historical Significance of Science in Western Culture from the Bronze Age to the Beginnings of the Modern Era ca. 3500 B.C. to ca A.D. 1640 (1984) (0)
Harriot's Achievements: Thomas Harriot . Renaissance Scientist. John W. Shirley, Ed. Clarendon (Oxford University Press), New York, 1974. x, 182 pp., illus., + plates. $21. (1975) (0)
Book Review:The Awakening Interest in Science during the First Century of Printing: An Annotated Checklist of First Editions Viewed from the Angle of Their Subject Content Margaret Bingham Stillwell (1971) (0)
Book Review:Origins in Acoustics: The Science of Sound from Antiquity to the Age of Newton Frederick Vinton Hunt (1979) (0)
TECHNOLOGY and SCIENCE (2019) (0)
Bert Hansen. Nicole Oresme and the Marvels of Nature: A Study of his De causis mirabilium with Critical Edition, Translation, and Commentary . Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1985. Pp. xi + 478. ISBN 0-88844-068-5. $39.00. (1986) (0)
17th-Century Issues: The Scientific Revolution . Steven Shapin. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1996. xiv, 218 pp., illus. $19.95 or £15.95. ISBN 0-226-75020-5. (1996) (0)
Did Averroes discover retinal sensitivity? (1975) (0)
Much Ado about Nothing: Theories of Space and Vacuum from the Middle Ages to the Scientific Revolution.Edward Grant (1982) (0)
Book Review:Ibn al-Haytham's Optics: A Study of the Origins of Experimental Science Saleh Beshara Omar (1981) (0)
The Philosophy of Robert Grosseteste. James McEvoy (1983) (0)
Book Review: Religion and Science: The Book of Nature (1993) (0)
Galileo, Bellarmine, and the Bible, Including a Translation of Foscarini's @'Letter on the Motion of the Earth@'.Richard J. Blackwell (1992) (0)
William A. Wallace, Causality and Scientific Explanation, I: Medieval and Early Classical Science . Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1972. Pp. xii, 288. $12. (1975) (0)
Adelard of Bath and Roger Bacon : early English natural philosophers and scientists (0)
Book Review:Questions concerning the Eternity of the World John Pecham, Vincent G. Potter (1994) (0)
Book Review:The Science of Art: Optical Themes in Western Art from Brunelleschi to Seurat Martin Kemp (1992) (0)
Anneliese Maier, On the Threshold of Exact Science: Selected Writings of Anneliese Maier on Late Medieval Natural Philosophy. Ed. and trans. Steven D. Sargent. (The Middle Ages.) Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1982. Pp. xiv, 173. $21.50. (1983) (0)
Memoirs of Fellows and Corresponding Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America (1989) (0)
How much optics did medieval and Renaissance scholars know (2004) (0)
Book Review:The Renaissance Rediscovery of Linear Perspective Samuel Y. Edgerton, Jr. (1977) (0)
Letter From David C. Lindberg to Emmett L. Bennett Jr., June 1, 1991 (1991) (0)
SCIENCE AND THE MEDIEVAL CHURCH (2013) (0)
Toby E. Huff, The Rise of Early Modern Science: Islam, China, and the West . Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Pp. xiv, 409; 12 black-and-white figures. $54.95. (1995) (0)
J.V. Field. Kepler's Geometrical Cosmology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988. Pp. xx + 243. ISBN 0-226-24823-2. £32. (1989) (0)
News of Record (1981) (0)
Book Review:Albertus Magnus and the Sciences: Commemorative Essays 1980 James A. Weisheipl (1981) (0)
Catalogus translationum et commentariorum: Medieval and Renaissance Latin Translations and Commentaries: Annotated Lists and Guides. Volume IV. F. Edward Cranz , Paul Oskar Kristeller (1981) (0)
Isaac Newton: Adventurer in thought (1994) (0)
Harriot's Achievements. (Book Reviews: Thomas Harriot. Renaissance Scientist) (1975) (0)
Book Review: The Invention of the Telescope, the Invention of the Telescope (1979) (0)
DOWNLOAD PDF 1. THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PHILOSOPHY AND THEOLOGY (2019) (0)

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The Beginnings of Western Science