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Author : James Edward McClellan
Release : 2006
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 590/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Science and Technology in World History by : James Edward McClellan
Download or read book Science and Technology in World History written by James Edward McClellan. This book was released on 2006. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description
Author : David Deming
Release : 2014-01-10
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 426/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Science and Technology in World History, Volume 2 by : David Deming
Download or read book Science and Technology in World History, Volume 2 written by David Deming. This book was released on 2014-01-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science is a living, organic activity, the meaning and understanding of which have evolved incrementally over human history. This book, the second in a roughly chronological series, explores the evolution of science from the advents of Christianity and Islam through the Middle Ages, focusing especially on the historical relationship between science and religion. Specific topics include technological innovations during the Middle Ages; Islamic science; the Crusades; Gothic cathedrals; and the founding of Western universities. Close attention is given to such figures as Paul the Apostle, Hippolytus, Lactantius, Cyril of Alexandria, Hypatia, Cosmas Indicopleustes, and the Prophet Mohammed.
Author : Thomas Söderquist
Release : 2013-01-11
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 670/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Historiography of Contemporary Science and Technology by : Thomas Söderquist
Download or read book The Historiography of Contemporary Science and Technology written by Thomas Söderquist. This book was released on 2013-01-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than ninety percent of all scientific history has been made during the last half century. So far, however, only a fraction of historical scholarship has dealt with this period. Merely a decade ago, most scientific historians considered recent science - the scientific culture created, lived and remembered by contemporary scientists - an area of study best left to the historical actors themselves.
Author : Abraham Wolf
Release : 1999
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Book Synopsis A History of Science, Technology and Philosophy in the 16th, 17th and 18th Centuries by : Abraham Wolf
Download or read book A History of Science, Technology and Philosophy in the 16th, 17th and 18th Centuries written by Abraham Wolf. This book was released on 1999. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Deming
Release : 2014-01-10
Genre : Science
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Book Rating : 574/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Science and Technology in World History, Volume 1 by : David Deming
Download or read book Science and Technology in World History, Volume 1 written by David Deming. This book was released on 2014-01-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science is a living, organic activity, the meaning and understanding of which have evolved incrementally over human history. This book, the first in a roughly chronological series, explores the development of the methodology and major ideas of science, in historical context, from ancient times to the decline of classical civilizations around 300 A.D. It includes details specific to the histories of specialized sciences including astronomy, medicine and physics--along with Roman engineering and Greek philosophy. It closely describes the contributions of such individuals as Pythagoras, Hippocrates, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Alexander the Great, Euclid, Archimedes, Ptolemy, Seneca, Pliny the Elder, and Galen.
