PACHSmörgåsbord: Byzantine Science

Thursday, September 23, 2010

Why Should Anybody Care about Byzantine Science?

Looking at Nikephoros Gregoras’s text on the astrolabe as a case study in Byzantine science, this post suggests that we need to take more seriously Byzantine science because early-modern scholars took it seriously.

Posted by Darin Hayton on 09/23 at 10:48 PM
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Saturday, October 09, 2010

Maybe Nobody Does Care about Byzantine Science

Another lament about the lack of attention to science in Byzantine studies and history of science.

Posted by Darin Hayton on 10/09 at 07:24 AM

Sunday, October 10, 2010

Byzantine Astrology during the Reign of Manuel I Komnenos

A summary on the one history of science paper at the Byzantine Studies Conference raises some possible reasons for the marginalization of Byzantine science within the broader history of science discipline.

Posted by Darin Hayton on 10/10 at 10:33 PM

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