Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction: the Old World and the New
- 1 To begin at the beginning: nature-knowledge in Greece and China
- 2 Islamic civilisation and medieval and Renaissance Europe
- 3 Three revolutionary transformations
- 4 A crisis surmounted
- 5 Expansion, threefold
- 6 Revolutionary transformation continued
- Epilogue: a look back and a look ahead
- Timeline 1: pre-1600
- Timeline 2: 1600–1700
- A note on the literature
- Provenance of quoted passages
- Index
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 March 2016
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction: the Old World and the New
- 1 To begin at the beginning: nature-knowledge in Greece and China
- 2 Islamic civilisation and medieval and Renaissance Europe
- 3 Three revolutionary transformations
- 4 A crisis surmounted
- 5 Expansion, threefold
- 6 Revolutionary transformation continued
- Epilogue: a look back and a look ahead
- Timeline 1: pre-1600
- Timeline 2: 1600–1700
- A note on the literature
- Provenance of quoted passages
- Index
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- The Rise of Modern Science ExplainedA Comparative History, pp. v - viPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2015