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Intellectual Curiosity and the Scientific Revolution : a Global Perspective.
This study, beginning with the Dutch-invented telescope of 1608 and then Galileo's discoveries, casts the European advancements in modern science, technology, and economic development into a global framework.
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2010.
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| 505 | 0 | |a Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; PART I SOMETHING NEW UNDER THE SUN; 1 Introduction; 2 Inventing the Discovery Machine; 3 The New Telescopic Evidence; 4 The "Far Seeing Looking Glass" Goes to China; 5 The Discovery Machine Goes to the Muslim World; PART II PATTERNS OF EDUCATION; 6 Three Ideals of Higher Education: Islamic, Chinese, and Western; PART III SCIENCE UNBOUND; 7 Infectious Curiosity I: Anatomy and Microbiology; 8 Infectious Curiosity II: Weighing the Air and Atmospheric Pressure. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 9 Infectious Curiosity III: Magnetism and Electricity10 Prelude to the Grand Synthesis; 11 The Path to the Grand Synthesis; 12 The Scientific Revolution in Comparative Perspective; Epilogue: Science, Literacy, and Economic Development; Selected References; Index. | |
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