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The dialogue of civilizations in the birth of modern science /
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.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2006.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.