Intellectual Curiosity and the Scientific Revolution
by Huff, Toby E.Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2010-10-31
Publisher(s): Cambridge Univ Pr
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Summary
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.
Table of Contents
| Something New Under the Sun | |
| Introduction: outline of a new perspective | |
| Inventing the discovery machine | |
| The new telescopic evidence | |
| The 'far seeing looking glass' goes to China | |
| 'Galileo's glass' goes to the Muslim world | |
| Patterns of Education | |
| Three ideals of higher education: Islamic, Chinese, and Western | |
| Science Unbound | |
| Infectious curiosity I: anatomy and microbiology | |
| Infectious curiosity II: weighing the air and atmospheric pressure | |
| Infectious curiosity III: magnetism and electricity | |
| Prelude to the grand synthesis | |
| The path to the grand synthesis | |
| The scientific revolution in comparative perspective | |
| Epilogue: science, literacy and economic development | |
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