| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 230 pages) |
| Contents |
Why Did Modern Science Not Develop in Civilization X? -- The Eurocentric History of Science -- Multicultural Histories of Science -- Towards a Thematic Approach to Multicultural History -- What Made the Renaissance in Europe? -- The Narrow Copernican Revolution -- The Alhazen Optical Revolution -- The Modern Atomic Revolution -- Integrating Hellenic and Indian Traditions -- Universal Mathematical Laws in a Mechanical Universe -- Fusing Solar and Stellar Cosmologies -- The Wider Copernican Revolution -- Contrasting Competitive Plausibility |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Science -- History.
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Science -- Philosophy.
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Science and civilization.
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Science -- history
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Civilization -- history
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SCIENCE -- History.
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Science
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Science and civilization
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Science -- Philosophy
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1403974683 |
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9781403974686 |
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9780230601215 |
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0230601219 |
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1281360953 |
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9781281360953 |
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9780230609792 |
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0230609791 |
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