Author: David N. LivingstonePublisher:
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The Cambridge History of Science
Author: David N. LivingstoneThe Cambridge History of Science: Volume 8, Modern Science in National, Transnational, and Global Context
Author: Hugh Richard SlottenPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108863353
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1046
Book Description
This volume in the highly respected Cambridge History of Science series is devoted to exploring the history of modern science using national, transnational, and global frames of reference. Organized by topic and culture, its essays by distinguished scholars offer the most comprehensive and up-to-date nondisciplinary history of modern science currently available. Essays are grouped together in separate sections that represent larger regions: Europe, Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, East and Southeast Asia, the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Oceania, and Latin America. Each of these regional groupings ends with a separate essay reflecting on the analysis in the preceding chapters. Intended to provide a balanced and inclusive treatment of the modern world, contributors analyze the history of science not only in local, national, and regional contexts but also with respect to the circulation of knowledge, tools, methods, people, and artifacts across national borders.
The Cambridge History of Science: Modern science in national and international context
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Category : Science
Languages : en
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Publisher's description: This volume offers to general and specialist readers alike the fullest and most complete survey of the development of science in the eighteenth century, exploring the implications of the 'scientific revolution' of the previous century and the major new growth-points, particularly in the experimental sciences. It is designed to be read as both a narrative and an interpretation, and also used as a work of reference. While prime attention is paid to western science, space is also given to science in traditional cultures and colonial science. The coverage strikes a balance between analysis of the cognitive dimension of science itself and interpretation of its wider social, economic and cultural significance. The contributors, world leaders in their respective specialities, engage with current historiographical and methodological controversies and strike out on positions of their own.
The Cambridge History of Science: Volume 7, The Modern Social Sciences
Author: David C. LindbergPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521594424
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 802
Book Description
An account of the history of the social sciences since the late eighteenth century.
Background to Modern Science
Author: Joseph NeedhamPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107495008
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Originally published in 1938, this book contains ten lectures on subjects such as parasitology, radioactivity, astronomy and evolution theory.
The Cambridge History of Science: Volume 1, Ancient Science
Author: Alexander JonesPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108682626
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
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This volume in the highly respected Cambridge History of Science series is devoted to the history of science, medicine and mathematics of the Old World in antiquity. Organized by topic and culture, its essays by distinguished scholars offer the most comprehensive and up-to-date history of ancient science currently available. Together, they reveal the diversity of goals, contexts, and accomplishments in the study of nature in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, Rome, China, and India. Intended to provide a balanced and inclusive treatment of the ancient world, contributors consider scientific, medical and mathematical learning in the cultures associated with the ancient world.
The Cambridge History of Science: Volume 4, Eighteenth-Century Science
Author: David C. LindbergPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521572439
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 956
Book Description
The fullest and most complete survey of the development of science in the eighteenth century.
The Origins of Modern Science
Author: Ofer GalPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316510301
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
"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"--
The Cambridge History of Science: Volume 2, Medieval Science
Author: David C. LindbergPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521594486
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 698
Book Description
This volume in the highly respected Cambridge History of Science series is devoted to the history of science in the Middle Ages from the North Atlantic to the Indus Valley. Medieval science was once universally dismissed as non-existent - and sometimes it still is. This volume reveals the diversity of goals, contexts, and accomplishments in the study of nature during the Middle Ages. Organized by topic and culture, its essays by distinguished scholars offer the most comprehensive and up-to-date history of medieval science currently available. Intended to provide a balanced and inclusive treatment of the medieval world, contributors consider scientific learning and advancement in the cultures associated with the Arabic, Greek, Latin, and Hebrew languages. Scientists, historians, and other curious readers will all gain a new appreciation for the study of nature during an era that is often misunderstood.
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