The rise of early modern science: Islam, China and the West
Editorial CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Mainland Spain
Toby Huff examines the long-standing question of why modern science arose only in the West and not in the civilizations of Islam and China, despite the fact that medieval Islam and China were more scientifically advanced. Huff explores the cultural c...
Read more- Publisher CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
- ISBN13 9780521529945
- ISBN10 0521529948
- Type BOOK
- Pages 425
- Published 2003
- Bookbinding Rustic
Subjects
History And Philosophy Of ScienceThe rise of early modern science: Islam, China and the West
Editorial CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Toby Huff examines the long-standing question of why modern science arose only in the West and not in the civilizations of Islam and China, despite the fact that medieval Islam and China were more scientifically advanced. Huff explores the cultural c...
Mainland Spain
Book details
Toby Huff examines the long-standing question of why modern science arose only in the West and not in the civilizations of Islam and China, despite the fact that medieval Islam and China were more scientifically advanced. Huff explores the cultural contexts within which science was practiced in Islam, China, and the West. He finds major clues in the history of law and the European cultural revolution of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, as to why the ethos of science arose in the West and permitted the breakthrough to modern science that did not occur elsewhere.