Toby E Huff

The Rise of Early Modern Science

Islam, China, and the West

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Produktbeschreibung

In this revised third edition, Toby E. Huff charts the rise of early modern science within Europe, China and Islamic civilisations.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• 3rd Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 396
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 156mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 746g
• ISBN-13: 9781107130210
• ISBN-10: 1107130212
• Artikelnr.: 48918476

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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.