The Dialogue of Civilizations in the Birth of Modern Science

Description

Arun Bala challenges Eurocentric conceptions of history by showing how Chinese, Indian, Arabic, and ancient Egyptian ideas in philosophy, mathematics, cosmology and physics played an indispensable role in making possible the birth of modern science.

Keywords

SCIENCE_HISTORYSCIENCE_PHILOSOPHYSCIENCE AND CIVILIZATION

2007Book

Author(s)Arun Bala

PublisherPalgrave Macmillan

ISBN9781403974686

LanguageEnglish

SpringerLink Book

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