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Apparatus, Equipment, Implements, Techniques Weights and measures Agriculture Windmills Alum Arms and armor Biography Artillery and fire arms Abelard, Peter Brewing Abraham bar Hiyya Bridges Abu Ma‘shar al Balkh (Albumasar) Canals Adelard of Bath Catapults and trebuchets Albert of Saxony Cathedral building Albertus Magnus Clepsydra Alderotti, Taddeo Clocks and timekeeping Alfonso X the Wise Coinage, Minting of Alfred of Sareschel Communication Andalusi, Sa‘id al- Eyeglasses Aquinas, Thomas Fishing Archimedes Food storage and preservation Arnau de Vilanova Gunpowder Bacon, Roger Harnessing Bartholomaeus Anglicus House building, housing Bartholomaeus of Bruges Instruments, agricultural Bartholomaeus of Salerno Instruments, medical Bartolomeo da Varignana Irrigation and drainage Battani, al- (Albategnius) Leather production Bede Military architecture Benzi, Ugo Navigation Bernard de Gordon Noria Bernard of Verdun Paints, pigments, dyes Bernard Silvester Paper Biruni, al- Pottery Boethius Printing Boethius of Dacia Roads Borgognoni, Teodorico Shipbuilding Bradwardine, Thomas Stirrup Bredon, Simon Stone masonry Burgundio of Pisa Transportation Buridan, John Water supply and sewerage Campanus de Novara Watermills Cecco d’Ascoli
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Chaucer, Geoffrey John of Saint-Amand Columbus, Christopher John of Saxony Constantine the African John of Seville Despars, Jacques Jordanus de Nemore Dioscorides Khayyam, al- Eriugena, John Scottus Khwarizmi, al- Euclid Kilwardby, Robert Farabi, al- (Alfarabius) Kindi, al- Fibonacci, Leonardo Kosmas Indikopleustes Fihrist Lanfranco of Milan Frederick II, Emperor Liuzzi, Mondino de’ Frugard, Roger Longoburgo, Bruno Galen Macrobius Gentile da Foligno Maimonides Gerard of Cremona Majusi, al- (Haly Abbas) Gerbert of Aurillac Mandeville, John Ghazali, al- Mark of Toledo Gilbertus Anglicus Marsilius of Inghen Giles of Rome Martianus Capella Gilles de Corbeil Maslama of Madrid Grosseteste, Robert Maurus of Salerno Gundisalvo, Domingo Michael Scot Guy de Chauliac Nequam, Alexander Henri de Mondeville Niccolò da Reggio Hermann of Carinthia Nicholas of Salerno Heytesbury, William of Oresme, Nicole Hildegard of Bingen Ortolf von Baierland Hippocrates Pecham, John Hugh of Saint-Victor Pedro Alfonso Hugh of Santalla Peter Lombard Hunayn ibn Ishaq Peter Peregrinus Ibn al-Haytham (Alhacen) Petrus Hispanus Ibn al-Saffar Peuerbach, Georg Ibn al-Samh Pierre d’Ailly Ibn al-Zarqalluh (Azarquiel) Pietro d’Abano Ibn Buklarish Plato Ibn Ezra, Abraham Polo, Marco Ibn Gabirol, Solomon ben Judah (Avicebron) Profatius Judaeus Ibn Majid, Ahmad pseudo-Aristotle Ibn Rushd (Averroes) Ptolemy Ibn Sina (Avicenna) Razi, al- (Rhazes) Ibn Zuhr (Abenzoar) Regiomontanus, Johannes Idrisi, al- Richard of Middleton Isaac Judaeus Richard Rufus of Cornwall Isidore of Seville Siger of Brabant Jabir ibn Hayyan (Geber) Swineshead, Richard James of Venice Thabit ibn Qurra Jean de Meurs Theodoric of Freiberg Johannes de Glogovia Thierry of Chartres Johannes de Sancto Paulo Thomas of Cantimpré Johannes Duns Scotus Torregiano de’ Torregiani (Turisanus) John of Arderne Trotula John of Gaddesden Tusi, Nasir al-Din al- John of Gmunden Uqlidisi, al- John of Sacrobosco Urso of Calabria 001_025 (Roman) Prelims 22/6/05 2:15 pm Page 25
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Vincent of Beauvais Platform Articles William of Conches Medicine, practical William of Moerbeke Religion and science William of Ockham Scientia Witelo South-central Asian science Zacuto, Abraham Technological diffusion Zahrawi, al Women in science
Disciplines Scientific Genres, Theories, Texts, Traditions Agronomy Agrimensores Alchemy Almanacs Algebra Arabic numerals Anatomy Aristotelianism Arithmetic Articella Astrology Bestiaries Astronomy Calendar Cartography Commercial arithmetic Computus Condemnation of 1277 Cosmology Consilia Geography, chorography Elements and qualities Geometry Encyclopedias Illumination Gender in medicine and natural history Logic Generation Medicine, theoretical God in Christianity Metaphysics God in Islam Meteorology Gynecology and midwifery Mineralogy Herbals Music theory Hylomorphism Natural history Illustration, scientific Optics and catoptrics Impetus Pharmacology Lapidaries Pharmacy “Latin Averroists” Physiognomy Latitude of forms Psychology Magic and the occult Quadrivium Magnet and magnetism Surgery Microcosm/macrocosm Trigonometry Miracle Weights, science of Monsters Zoology Nature: the structure of the physical world Nature: diverse medieval interpretations Geographical Places Pharmaceutic handbooks Monte Cassino Plague tractates Ravenna Planetary tables Salerno Reason Toledo Regimen sanitatis Scholasticism Institutions Tacuinum sanitatis Astrolabes and quadrants Theorica planetarum Bayt al-Hikma Translation movements Cathedral schools Vocabulary Hospitals Patronage of science Universities