The dialogue of civilizations in the birth of modern science / / Arun Bala
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| Autore: |
Bala Arun
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| Titolo: |
The dialogue of civilizations in the birth of modern science / / Arun Bala
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. 2006. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (243 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 509 |
| Soggetto topico: | Science - History |
| Science - Philosophy | |
| Science and civilization | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 PlausibilityNotes; Bibliography; Name Index; Subject Index | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The dialogue of civilizations in the birth of modern science |
| ISBN: | 1-281-36095-3 |
| 9786611360955 | |
| 0-230-60121-9 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910826419403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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