Knowledge and Power: Science in World History

ISBN-13: 9781138475809 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017

William Burns

Opis

Knowledge and Power shows how science has developed in different historical settings by focusing on four episodes in the history of world science from the Middle Ages to the mid-twentieth century

Spis treści

Introduction Chapter 1: Science in the Medieval Mediterranean Chapter Two: The Jesuits and World Science, 1540-1773 Chapter Three: Westernization, Modernization, and Science in Russia and Japan, 1684-1860s Chapter Four: Africa in the Age of Imperialism and Nationalism, 1860-1960 Making Connections: How Much have Things Changed? Bibliography Documentary Sources

O autorze

William Burns is a historian living in Washington, DC. His previous books include The Scientific Revolution (2001), An Age of Wonders: Prodigies, Politics and Providence in England, 1657-1727 (2002), Science in the Enlightenment (2003), and Science and Technology in Colonial America (2005).