“The proper measure of a philosophical system or a scientific theory is not the degree to which it anticipated modern thought, but its degree of success in treating the philosophical and scientific problems of its own day.” — David C. Lindberg Copy Share Image
“If there was anything obviously heroic about medieval surgery, it was the patient.” — David C. Lindberg Copy Share Image
“The proper measure of a philosophical system or a scientific theory is not the degree to which it anticipated modern thought, but its degree… — David C. Lindberg Copy Share Image
“If we wish to do justice to the historical enterprise, we must take past for what it was. And that means that we must… — David C. Lindberg Copy Share Image
“The establishment of medical studies in the university (as opposed to some other possible institutional home) created a linkage between medicine and other branches… — David C. Lindberg Copy Share Image
“From the same twelfth-century bestiary, we learn that the hedgehog is covered with spikes and curls itself into a ball for protection; that the… — David C. Lindberg Copy Share Image
