Your best source for an inspiring & informing 1-stop shopping site showroom. Let us serve you.
The Rise of Early Modern Science: Islam, China and the West
Place your ORDER Toll Free
1-800-478-1164
1-800-478-1164
Thank You for shopping with us. We appreciate your business, patronage, and look forward to serve you.
ISBN: 0521498333
Author: Toby E. Huff
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Pages: 409 Binding: Paperback
Description from the publisher:
This study examines the long-standing question of why modern science arose only in the west not in the civilizations of Islam of China, despite the fact that medieval Islam and China were more scientifically advanced. To explain this outcome, the author explores the cultural – religious, legal, philosophical, and institutional – context within which science was practiced in Islam, China, and the West. He finds in the history of law and the European Cultural Revolution of twelfth and thirteenth centuries major clues as to why the ethos of science arose In the West permitting the break through to modern science that did not occur elsewhere. The line of inquiry leads to novel ideas about the centrality of the legal concept of corporation, which is unique to the West and gave rise to the concept of neutral space and free inquiry.
Author: Toby E. Huff
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Pages: 409 Binding: Paperback
Description from the publisher:
This study examines the long-standing question of why modern science arose only in the west not in the civilizations of Islam of China, despite the fact that medieval Islam and China were more scientifically advanced. To explain this outcome, the author explores the cultural – religious, legal, philosophical, and institutional – context within which science was practiced in Islam, China, and the West. He finds in the history of law and the European Cultural Revolution of twelfth and thirteenth centuries major clues as to why the ethos of science arose In the West permitting the break through to modern science that did not occur elsewhere. The line of inquiry leads to novel ideas about the centrality of the legal concept of corporation, which is unique to the West and gave rise to the concept of neutral space and free inquiry.
