The Origins of Modern Science: From Antiquity to the Scientific Revolution
Cambridge University Press, 2/4/2021
EAN 9781316510308, ISBN10: 1316510301
Hardcover, 412 pages, 24.8 x 17.8 x 2.5 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English
The Origins of Modern Science is the first synthetic account of the history of science from antiquity through the Scientific Revolution in many decades. Providing readers of all backgrounds and students of all disciplines with the tools to study science like a historian, Ofer Gal covers everything from Pythagorean mathematics to Newton's Principia, through Islamic medicine, medieval architecture, global commerce and magic. Richly illustrated throughout, scientific reasoning and practices are introduced in accessible and engaging ways with an emphasis on the complex relationships between institutions, beliefs and political structures and practices. Readers gain valuable new insights into the role that science plays both in history and in the world today, placing the crucial challenges to science and technology of our time within their historical and cultural context.
1. Cathedrals
2. Greek Thought
3. The Birth of Astronomy
4. Medieval Learning
5. The Seeds of Revolution
6. Magic
7. The Moving Earth
8. Medicine and the Body
9. The New Science
10. The Road to the Principia.