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The dialogue of civilizations in the birth of modern science

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The dialogue of civilizations in the birth of modern scienceArun Bala.
Author:	Bala, Arun.
Published:	New York :Palgrave Macmillan,2006.
Description:	xii, 230 p.
Subject:	ScienceHistory.
Online resource:	access to fulltext (Palgrave)
ISBN:	9780230601215

The dialogue of civilizations in the birth of modern science
Bala, Arun.

The dialogue of civilizations in the birth of modern science[electronic resource] /Arun Bala. - 1st ed. - New York :Palgrave Macmillan,2006. - xii, 230 p.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-216) and indexes.

Preface * Introduction * Why Did Modern Science Not Develop in Civilization X? * The Eurocentric History of Science * Multicultural Histories of Science * Towards a Thematic Approach to Multicultural History * What Made the Renaissance in Europe? * The Narrow Copernican Revolution* The Alhazen Optical Revolution * The Modern Atomic Revolution * Integrating Hellenic and Indian Traditions * Universal Mathematical Laws ina Mechanical Universe * Fusing Solar and Stellar Cosmologies * The Wider Copernican Revolution * Contrasting Competitive Plausibility * Bibliography * Name Index * SubjectIndex --.

Arun Bala challenges Eurocentric conceptions of history by showing how Chinese, Indian, Arabic, and ancient Egyptian ideas in philosophy, mathematics, cosmology and physics played an indispensable role in making possible the birth of modern science.

Electronic reproduction.
Basingstoke, England :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2009.

Mode of access:World Wide Web.

ISBN: 9780230601215

Standard No.: 10.1057/9780230601215doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

187639
Science
--History.Index Terms--Genre/Form:

214472
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: Q125 / .B2925 2006eb

Dewey Class. No.: 509

National Library of Medicine Call No.: 2007 K-518

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