22 Hillel Ofek, “Why the Arabic World Turned Away from Science,” The New Atlantis, Winter
2011, pp. 3–23.
23 Ibid., p. 50.
24 Hillel Ofek, “Why the Arabic World Turned Away from Science,” The New Atlantis, Winter
2011, p. 7.
25 David Wootton, Bad Medicine: Doctors Doing Harm Since Hippocrates (Oxford, UK:
Oxford University Press, 2006), p. 50.
26 Michael Flannery, Avicenna entry, Encyclopedia Britannica online, quoted August 11,
2016.
27 Sherwin Nuland, Doctors: The Biography of Medicine (New York: Vintage Books, 1988), p.
57.
28 Steven Weinberg, To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science (New York:
HarperCollins, 2015), p. 112.
29 Charles Burnett and Danielle Jacquart, eds., Constantine the African and Ali ibn al-Abbas al-
Magusi; The Pantegni and Related Texts (Leiden, Netherlands: E. J. Brill, 1994), Preface vii–
viii.
30 Nicholas Ostler, Ad Infinitum: A Biography of Latin (New York: HarperPress, 2009), p. 211.
31 David Osborn, “Constantine the African and Gerard of Cremona,” in GreekMedicine.Net,
quoted August 20, 2016,
http://www.greekmedicine.net/whos_who/Constantine_the_African_Gerard_of_Cremona.ht
ml.
32 Christopher de Hamel, “The European Medieval Book,” in The Book: A Global History, M.
F. Suarez and H. R. Woudhuysen, eds. (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2013), p. 59.
33 John Man, Gutenberg: How One Man Remade the World with Words (New York: MJF
Books, 2002), p. 88.
THREE: VESALIUS AND DE HUMANI CORPORIS FABRICA
1 David Wootton, The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution (New
York: HarperCollins, 2015), p. 58.
2 Ibid., p. 106.
3 Ibid., p. 75.
4 Ibid., p. 78.
5 Paul Strathern, The Medici: Power, Money, and Ambition in the Italian Renaissance (New
York: Pegasus Books, 2016), p. 46.
6 Steven Johnson, How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World (New
York: Riverhead Books, 2014), p. 17.
7 Ibid., p. 19.
8 Ibid., p. 32.
9 Ibid.
10 Ibid., p. 8.
11 Lewis Mumford, Technics and Civilization (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010), p.
129.