Introduction, by Edward Peters
Chapter 1. The Early Middle Ages
Chapter 2. The Twelfth Century
-Selections from Adelard of Bath, Natural Questions
-Selections from Anonymous, On the Elements
Chapter 3. Robert Grosseteste and Scientific Method
-Selections from Robert Grosseteste, The Impressions of the Elements
-Selections from Robert Grosseteste, The Heat of the Sun
Chapter 4. The Tides
-Selections from Robert Grosseteste, An Inquiry into the Causes of the Tides
Chapter 5. Studies of the Rainbow
-Selections from Carl B. Boyer, "The Theory of the Rainbow: Medieval Triumph and Failure"
Chapter 6. Studies of Local Motion
-Selection from H. Lamar Crosby, Jr., ed., Thomas of Bradwardine His Tractatus de Proportionibus
-Selections from John Buridan, Questions on the Heavens and the World
-Selections from Marshall Clagett, The Science of Mechanics in the Middle Ages
-Selections from Nicole Oresme, On the Book of the Heavens and the World of Aristotle
