Horizons : the global origins of modern science /
Presents a history of science that focuses on the contributions from non-Western cultures in Africa, Asia and the Pacific region and how they influenced and guided great minds such as Copernicus, Newton, Darwin and Einstein.
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Boston :
Mariner Books,
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Table of Contents:
- Part one: Scientific revolution, c.1450-1700. New worlds
- Heaven and Earth
- Part two: Empire and enlightenment, c.1650-1800
- Newton's slaves
- Economy of nature
- Part three: Capitalism and conflict, c.1790-1914
- Struggle for existence
- Industrial experiments
- Part four: Ideology and aftermath, c.1914-2000. Faster than light
- Genetic states.