The Genesis of Science - James Hannam

The Genesis of Science: How the Christian Middle Ages Launched the Scientific Revolution by James Hannam is a provocative, engaging, and terrific read, which will change the way you think about our past and our future. If you were taught that the Middle Ages were a time of intellectual stagnation, superstition, and ignorance, you were taught a myth that has been utterly refuted by modern scholarship. As Dr. Hannam writes, "The people of medieval Europe invented spectacles, the mechanical clock, the windmill, and the blast furnace by themselves. Lenses and cameras, almost all kinds of machinery, and the industrial revolution itself all owe their origins to the forgotten inventors of the Middle Ages."