The scientific revolution in global perspective
By: Burns, William.
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BookPublisher: Oxford Oxford University Press 2016Description: xv; 198p. 9x6 pb.ISBN: 9780199989331.Subject(s): Science- History | Social change- History | World historyDDC classification: 509 Summary: In The Scientific Revolution in Global Perspective, William Burns places the Scientific Revolution, its causes and effects, in a global context. It breaks with the Eurocentric tradition of previous surveys to fully reimagine the emergence of modern science on a global scale. Based on cutting-edge scholarship, Burns fluidly integrates the history of the Scientific Revolution in a convincing and seamless fashion, providing the reader with a new appreciation for the origins of the global, technological world around them.
Cutting-edge scholarship that takes an impressively broad scope, including the relation of science to colonial expansion, the slave trade and the development of racial categories.
Reveals the wider motivations and global connections of scientific innovation, including the relation of seventeenth-century science to non-European societies.
Written in a clear, direct style, rich with examples
Includes seven color maps
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In The Scientific Revolution in Global Perspective, William Burns places the Scientific Revolution, its causes and effects, in a global context. It breaks with the Eurocentric tradition of previous surveys to fully reimagine the emergence of modern science on a global scale. Based on cutting-edge scholarship, Burns fluidly integrates the history of the Scientific Revolution in a convincing and seamless fashion, providing the reader with a new appreciation for the origins of the global, technological world around them.
Cutting-edge scholarship that takes an impressively broad scope, including the relation of science to colonial expansion, the slave trade and the development of racial categories.
Reveals the wider motivations and global connections of scientific innovation, including the relation of seventeenth-century science to non-European societies.
Written in a clear, direct style, rich with examples
Includes seven color maps
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