Intellectual Curiosity and the Scientific Revolution : a Global Perspective.

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Huff, Toby E.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Subjects:
Discoveries in science > Europe > History > 17th century.
Science > Europe > History > 17th century.
Science > Europe > History.
Science > Experiments > History.
Science > History.
Online Access: Full text (Wentworth users only)
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • 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.
  • 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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