books.google.com.au - A powerful and thrilling narrative history revealing the roots of modern science in the medieval world. The adjective 'medieval' has become a synonym for brutality and uncivilised behaviour. Yet without the work of medieval scholars there could have been no Galileo, no Newton and no Scientific Revolution....http://books.google.com.au/books/about/God_s_Philosophers.html?id=16yO3c7D6EcC&q=Simplicio&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareGod's Philosophers
