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Author : Toby E. Huff
Release : 2017-06-15
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 212/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Rise of Early Modern Science by : Toby E. Huff
Download or read book The Rise of Early Modern Science written by Toby E. Huff. This book was released on 2017-06-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this revised third edition, Toby E. Huff charts the rise of early modern science within Europe, China and Islamic civilisations.
Author : Toby E. Huff
Release : 2003-08-18
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 029/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Rise of Early Modern Science by : Toby E. Huff
Download or read book The Rise of Early Modern Science written by Toby E. Huff. This book was released on 2003-08-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 2003 study examines the long-standing question of why modern science arose only in the West and not in the civilizations of Islam and China, despite the fact that medieval Islam and China were more scientifically advanced. To explain this outcome, Tony E. Huff explores the cultural - religious, legal, philosophical, and institutional - contexts within which science was practised in Islam, China, and the West. He finds in the history of law and the European cultural revolution of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries major clues as to why the ethos of science arose in the West, permitting the breakthrough to modern science that did not occur elsewhere. This line of inquiry leads to novel ideas about the centrality of the legal concept of corporation, which is unique to the West and gave rise to the concepts of neutral space and free inquiry.
Author : H. Floris Cohen
Release : 2015-09-24
Genre : Science
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Book Rating : 781/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Rise of Modern Science Explained by : H. Floris Cohen
Download or read book The Rise of Modern Science Explained written by H. Floris Cohen. This book was released on 2015-09-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries, laymen and priests, lone thinkers and philosophical schools in Greece, China, the Islamic world and Europe reflected with wisdom and perseverance on how the natural world fits together. As a rule, their methods and conclusions, while often ingenious, were misdirected when viewed from the perspective of modern science. In the 1600s thinkers such as Galileo, Kepler, Descartes, Bacon and many others gave revolutionary new twists to traditional ideas and practices, culminating in the work of Isaac Newton half a century later. It was as if the world was being created anew. But why did this recreation begin in Europe rather than elsewhere? This book caps H. Floris Cohen's career-long effort to find answers to this classic question. Here he sets forth a rich but highly accessible account of what, against many odds, made it happen and why.
Author : Wolfgang Lefèvre
Release : 2012-12-06
Genre : Science
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Book Rating : 995/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Power of Images in Early Modern Science by : Wolfgang Lefèvre
Download or read book The Power of Images in Early Modern Science written by Wolfgang Lefèvre. This book was released on 2012-12-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is dedicated to the role of visual representations in the history of early modern science. It brings together historical case studies from various fields and discusses epistemological questions such as the role of images as mediatory instances between practical and theoretical knowledge, the interaction between images and texts, and the potential of images to synthesize fragments of knowledge to a global picture.
Author : Ofer Gal
Release : 2021-02-04
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 301/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Origins of Modern Science by : Ofer Gal
Download or read book The Origins of Modern Science written by Ofer Gal. This book was released on 2021-02-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book attempts to introduce to its readers major chapters in the history of science. It tries to present science as a human endeavor - a great achievement, and all the more human for it. In place of the story of progress and its obstacles or a parade of truths revealed, this book stresses the contingent and historical nature of scientific knowledge. Knowledge, science included, is always developed by real people, within communities, answering immediate needs and challenges shaped by place, culture, and historical events with resources drawn from their present and past. Chronologically, this book spans from Pythagorean mathematics to Newton's Principle. The book starts in the high Middle Ages and proceeds to introduce the readers to the historian's way of inquiry. At the center of this introduction is the Gothic Cathedral - a grand achievement of human knowledge, rooted in a complex cultural context, and a powerful metaphor for science. The book alternates thematic chapters with chapters concentrating on an era. Yet it attempts to integrate discussion of all different aspects of the making of knowledge: social and cultural settings, challenges and opportunities; intellectual motivations and worries; epistemological assumptions and technical ideas; instruments and procedures. The cathedral metaphor is evoked intermittently throughout, to tie the many themes discussed to the main lesson: that the complex set of beliefs, practices, and institutions we call science is a particular, contingent human phenomenon"--
