Oxford History of Science / Iwan Rhys Morus, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Morus, Iwan Rhys, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science--History.

Science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 430 page) : illustrations

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Summary:

The Oxford History of Science offers an accessible and entertaining introduction to the history of science as well as a valuable and authoritative reference work. It provides a chronological account of the variety of human efforts to understand the natural world over three millennia, from the ancient world to the present day. Written by leading scholars, it offers chapters on the ancient world, Islamic science, and the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment. It shows how the transformations that have taken place in the ways in which humans have tried to understand the world around them are very much the products of the cultures in which they took place.

Contents:

1: James Evans: Science in the Ancient Mediterranean World

2: Donald Harper: Science in Ancient China

3: Sonja Brentjes: Medieval Science in the West and Middle East

4: Dagmar Schaefer: Science in the Medieval East

5: John Henry: The Scientific Revolution

6: Jan Golinski: Enlightenment Science

7: Iwan Rhys Morus: Experimental Cultures

8: Amanda Rees: Exploring Nature

9: Robert Smith: Mapping the Universe

10: Peter Bowler: The Meaning of Life

11: Matthew Stanley: Theoretical Visions

12: Charlotte Sleigh: Communicating Nature.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-288401-8

0-19-288400-X

0-19-198001-3