Joel Kaye (Columbia University Barnard College)

Broschiertes Buch

A History of Balance, 1250-1375

Beschreibung

This groundbreaking history of balance reveals how a new model of equilibrium emerged during the medieval period. Although the ideal of balance and its central place in the workings of nature and society remained unchanged, a greatly expanded sense of what balance is, and can be, developed.

Autor

Joel Kaye is a Professor in the Department of History at Barnard College, Columbia University. His previous publications include Economy and Nature in the Fourteenth Century: Money, Market Exchange, and the Emergence of Scientific Thought (Cambridge, 1998).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 530
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juni 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 778g
• ISBN-13: 9781316620281
• ISBN-10: 131662028X
• Artikelnr.: 45331553