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Received wisdom used to be that modern science suddenly sprang into life in
the 17th and 18th centuries, with little connection to what had gone before. In
The Foundations of Modern Science in the Middle Ages historian Edward Grant
demonstrates that the Scientific Revolution rests firmly on the foundation of
Aristotelian natural philosophy and the way it was adapted in the Middle Ages.
Published by Cambridge University Press, £12.95/$17.95, ISBN
0521567629.