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Dear EUCASS members and friends,
Eucass is pleased to inform you of the publication on June 19th 2025 of the second volume of our Honorary President's book “a history of rational thought” (“une histoire de la pensée rationnelle”) , published by EDP Sciences, only in French for the time being.
 A History of Rational Thought
Volume 2: Faith and Reason - Physics in the East and West: From Hypatia to Galileo
by A. Merlen
You can find this book directly on the EDP Sciences website:
https://laboutique.edpsciences.fr/produit/1482/9782759838158/une-histoire-de-la-pensee-rationnelle-tome-2 or in bookshops and on online book sales platforms.
How did rational thought develop over the centuries? It is undeniable that physics played a major role in this development.
This second volume begins with Hypatia, at the end of the Hellenistic period. Religious doctrines now question the place of rationalist philosophy and science in society. This age, often described as entirely dark, with a succession of calamities, wars, schisms, religious obscurantism, invasions and pandemics, will in fact be one of the most fertile periods in philosophical and scientific thought in history. From the enlightened minds of Islam, heirs to the Greeks and Indians, to the laborious intellectual journey of an army of Church doctors, men destroyed the ancient physics. They will have to build a new one, for which Galileo courageously laid the first stone.
As a reminder, this series of four books offers a history of the discovery of the concepts of physics by those who built it.
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