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The rise of early modern science : [manuscript] : Islam, China, and the West / by Toby E. Huff, Harvard University, Massachusetts.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2017Edition: Third editionDescription: xiii, 383 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781107571075 (hardback : alk. paper)
  • 9781107571075 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 509 23
LOC classification:
  • Q127.A5 H84 2017
Contents:
Introduction -- The comparative study of science -- Arabic science and the Islamic world -- Philosophy, science, and civilizational configurations -- The European legal revolution -- Madrasas and the transmitted sciences -- Universities and the institutionalization of science -- Science and civilization in China -- Education, examinations, and neo-confucianism -- Appendix 1 : anatomy and post-mortems in China -- Poverties and triumphs of Chinese science -- Appendix 2 : books and essays on western science and astronomy translated into Chinese by the Jesuits -- The rise of modern science -- Epilogue : science, history and development.
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Books Books Ethiopian Graduate School of Theology Library Available at Circulation Section 509 Huf 2017 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 19040

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- The comparative study of science -- Arabic science and the Islamic world -- Philosophy, science, and civilizational configurations -- The European legal revolution -- Madrasas and the transmitted sciences -- Universities and the institutionalization of science -- Science and civilization in China -- Education, examinations, and neo-confucianism -- Appendix 1 : anatomy and post-mortems in China -- Poverties and triumphs of Chinese science -- Appendix 2 : books and essays on western science and astronomy translated into Chinese by the Jesuits -- The rise of modern science -- Epilogue : science, history and development.

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