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Isidore of Seville, On the Nature of Things

Paperback • 2016 • 1. edition

Isidore of Seville, On the Nature of Things

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For scholars in the European Middle Ages, Isidore, bishop of Seville (560-636) was one of the most influential authorities for understanding he natural world. Isidore's On the Nature of Things is the first work on natural science by a Christian author that is not a commentary on the creation story in Genesis. Instead, Isidore adopted a classical model to describe the structure of the physical cosmos, and discuss the principles of astronomy, physics, geography, meteorology and time-reckoning. Int...Show more

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9781781382943

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Liverpool University Press

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2016

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1

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Isidore of Seville, On the Nature of Things

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