[PDF.03np] The Rise of Early Modern Science: Islam, China and the West

The Rise of Early Modern Science: Islam, China and the West

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 | #853762 in Books |  Cambridge University Press |  2003-08-18 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.98 x1.18 x5.98l,1.32 | File type: PDF | 448 pages

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||8 of 8 people found the following review helpful.| Fantastic|By Charles|This is a magisterial book, pulling together innumerable threads into a coherent, cohesive whole. It is actually a different book than I expected—it spends much more time on the sociology and philosophy of science, in the abstract and as tied to and generated by each society, and much less time on individual scientific inventions and advances. Those| |"...Huff provides a thorough, coherent hypothesis and thus helps sharpen the debates on the rise of modern science." MESA Bulletin

Toby Huff 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. Huff explores the cultural contexts within which science was practiced in Islam, China, and the West. He finds major clues in the history of law and the European cultural revolution of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, as to why the ethos of scien...

You easily download any file type for your device.The Rise of Early Modern Science: Islam, China and the West   |  Toby E. Huff. I really enjoyed this book and have already told so many people about it!

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