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1 online resource (237 pages)
ISBN:
9780230601215
Content:
Arun Bala challenges Eurocentric conceptions of history by showing how Chinese, Indian, Arabic, and ancient Egyptian ideas in philosophy, mathematics, cosmology and physics played an indispensable role in making possible the birth of modern science.
Content:
Cover -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Why Did Modern Science Not Develop in Civilization X? -- 3 The Eurocentric History of Science -- 4 Multicultural Histories of Science -- 5 Toward a Thematic Approach to Multicultural History -- 6 What Made the Renaissance in Europe? -- 7 The Narrow Copernican Revolution -- 8 The Alhazen Optical Revolution -- 9 The Modern Atomic Revolution -- 10 Integrating Hellenic and Indian Traditions -- 11 Universal Mathematical Laws in a Mechanical Universe -- 12 Fusing Solar and Stellar Cosmologies -- 13 The Wider Copernican Revolution -- 14 Contrasting Competitive Plausibility -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Name Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Subject Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781403974686
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Bala, Arun The dialogue of civilizations in the birth of modern science New York [u.a.] : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007 ISBN 1403974683
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781403974686
Additional Edition:
Print version The Dialogue of Civilizations in the Birth of Modern Science
Language:
English
Keywords:
Naturwissenschaften
;
Philosophie
;
Geschichte
;
Naturwissenschaften
;
Kultur
;
Geschichte
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