02984nam 2200721Ia 450 991082641940332120200520144314.01-281-36095-397866113609550-230-60121-910.1057/9780230601215(CKB)1000000000342514(EBL)308211(OCoLC)315733490(SSID)ssj0000517827(PQKBManifestationID)12204792(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000517827(PQKBWorkID)10488039(PQKB)10823014(SSID)ssj0000138401(PQKBManifestationID)11139540(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000138401(PQKBWorkID)10100661(PQKB)11035294(DE-He213)978-0-230-60121-5(MiAaPQ)EBC308211(Au-PeEL)EBL308211(CaPaEBR)ebr10167489(CaONFJC)MIL136095(OCoLC)191662056(EXLCZ)99100000000034251420060302d2006 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe dialogue of civilizations in the birth of modern science /Arun Bala1st ed. 2006.New York Palgrave Macmillan20061 online resource (243 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-230-60979-1 1-4039-7468-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 Revolution14 Contrasting Competitive PlausibilityNotes; Bibliography; Name Index; Subject IndexArun 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.ScienceHistorySciencePhilosophyScience and civilizationScienceHistory.SciencePhilosophy.Science and civilization.509Bala Arun926595MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910826419403321The dialogue of civilizations in the birth of modern science4197650UNINA