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.
Autorentext
ARUN BALA is a visiting professor at the University of Toronto in Canada.
Inhalt
Preface Introduction 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 Bibliography Name Index Subject Index
Titel
The Dialogue of Civilizations in the Birth of Modern Science
Autor
EAN
9780230601215
ISBN
978-0-230-60121-5
Format
E-Book (pdf)
Hersteller
Herausgeber
Veröffentlichung
13.11.2006
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Wasserzeichen
Dateigrösse
1.11 MB
Anzahl Seiten
230
Jahr
2006
Untertitel
Englisch
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