Rise of Early Modern Science - Islam, China, and the West

Informationen zum Autor Toby E. Huff is a research associate in the Department of Astronomy, Harvard University, Massachusetts, and Chancellor Professor in Policy Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. He has lectured in Europe, Asia and the Middle East and has lived in Malaysia. Huff is the author of Intellectual Curiosity and the Scientific Revolution: A Global Perspective (Cambridge, 2011) and coeditor of Max Weber and Islam (with Wolfgang Schluchter, 1999). Klappentext In this revised third edition, Toby E. Huff charts the rise of early modern science within Europe, China and Islamic civilisations. Zusammenfassung Comparing the effects of cultural and institutional structures on the rise of modern science in the West and East! this revised! updated third edition offers a unique perspective of the history of scientific thought. It will be an indispensable resource for those interested in the history of science and the early modern world. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Part I: 1. The comparative study of science; 2. Arabic science and the Islamic world; 3. Philosophy, science, and civilizational configurations; 4. The European legal revolution; 5. Madrasas and the transmitted sciences; 6. Universities and the institutionalization of science; Part II: 7. Science and civilization in China; 8. Education, examinations, and Neo-Confucianism; 9. Poverties and triumphs of Chinese science; Part III: 10. The rise of modern science; Epilogue: science, history and development.

Product details

• Authors: Toby E Huff, Toby E. Huff, Toby E. (Harvard University Huff
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.06.2017
• EAN: 9781107130210
• ISBN: 978-1-107-13021-0
• No. of pages: 396
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); European History, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / History, General & world history, c 1500 onwards to present day, History of Science, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, General and world history