Horizons

By: James Poskett
Categories Books , Adults & General Classification , History

Price: JOD 27.00

Stock Availability: Out Of Stock
ISBN: 9780241394090
Total Pages: 464
Available Book Formats: Hardcover
Year: 2022

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A radical retelling of the history of science - The Silk Roads for science | A Bookseller 'Editor's Choice' We are told that modern science was invented in Europe, the product of great minds like Nicolaus Copernicus, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, and Albert Einstein. But this is wrong. Science is not and has never been, a uniquely European endeavour. Copernicus relied on mathematical techniques borrowed from Arabic and Persian texts. When Newton set out the laws of motion, he relied on astronomical observations made in India and Africa. When Darwin was writing On the Origin of Species, he consulted a sixteenth-century Chinese encyclopedia. And when Einstein was studying quantum mechanics, he was inspired by the young Bengali physicist, Satyendra Nath Bose. Horizons push the history of science beyond Europe, exploring how scientists from Africa, America, Asia, and the Pacific fit into this global story.

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