16 Facts About Edward Grant

Edward Grant was an American historian of medieval science.

Edward Grant initially attended trade school and joined the US Navy, serving as a radarman on the USS San Jacinto in the Pacific Ocean theater of World War II.

Edward Grant continued to the University of Wisconsin where he received a master's degree and a PhD in the history of science and medieval history in 1957.

Edward Grant began his teaching career while a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin.

Edward Grant was an assistant to a well-known scholar in the field, Marshall Clagett, whom he would continue to respect and correspond with throughout his career.

Edward Grant taught at the University of Maine and in the history of science program at Harvard University.

In 1959, Edward Grant came to Indiana University as an assistant professor of history.

Edward Grant's teaching career spanned over thirty years at IU.

Edward Grant was instrumental in starting the department later to be known as history and philosophy of science.

Edward Grant was named distinguished professor of both that department and the history department.

Professor Edward Grant was twice chair of his department where he taught courses on medieval science, natural philosophy and science and religion.

Edward Grant was given the title Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Indiana University.

Edward Grant was a prominent member of several organizations, such as the Medieval Academy of America, the International Academy of the History of Science, and the History of Science Society.

Edward Grant's edited volume A Source Book of Medieval Science was praised as an "admirable anthology" and a "milestone" for the field of study of medieval science by historian of medieval technology Lynn White Jr.

Edward Grant emphasized how the roots of modern science were planted in the ancient and medieval worlds long before the modern period, and that the Christian Latin civilization of Western Europe began the last stage of its intellectual development.

Edward Grant published more than ninety articles and twelve books, including:.