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100	1		_aHuff, Toby E., _d1942- _915719
245	1	0	_aIntellectual curiosity and the scientific revolution : _ba global perspective / _cToby E. Huff.
260			_aCambridge ; _aNew York : _bCambridge University Press, _c2011.
300			_axiii, 354 p. : _bill. ; _c24 cm.
505	0	0	_a Machine generated contents note: _g pt. I _t SOMETHING NEW UNDER THE SUN -- _g 1. _t Introduction -- _g 2. _t Inventing the Discovery Machine -- _g 3. _t The New Telescopic Evidence -- _g 4. _t The "Far Seeing Looking Glass" Goes to China -- _g 5. _t The Discovery Machine Goes to the Muslim World -- _g pt. II _t PATTERNS OF EDUCATION -- _g 6. _t Three Ideals of Higher Education: Islamic, Chinese, and Western -- _g pt. III _t SCIENCE UNBOUND -- _g 7. _t Infections Curiosity I: Anatomy and Microbiology -- _g 8. _t Infections Curiosity II: Weighing the Air and Atmospheric Pressure -- _g 9. _t Infectious Curiosity III: Magnetism and Electricity -- _g 10. _t Prelude to the Grand Synthesis -- _g 11. _t The Path to the Grand Synthesis -- _g 12. _t The Scientific Revolution in Comparative Perspective.
520			_a"Seventeenth-century Europe witnessed an extraordinary flowering of discoveries and innovations. This study, beginning with the Dutch-invented telescope of 1608, casts Galileo's discoveries into a global framework. Although the telescope was soon transmitted to China, Mughal India, and the Ottoman Empire, those civilizations did not respond as Europeans did to the new instrument. In Europe, there was an extraordinary burst of innovations in microscopy, human anatomy, optics, pneumatics, electrical studies, and the science of mechanics. Nearly all of those aided the emergence of Newton's revolutionary grand synthesis, which unified terrestrial and celestial physics under the law of universal gravitation. That achievement had immense implications for all aspects of modern science, technology, and economic development. The economic implications are set out in the concluding epilogue. All these unique developments suggest why the West experienced a singular scientific and economic ascendancy of at least four centuries"-- _cProvided by publisher.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 321-339) and index.
650		0	_aScience _zEurope _xHistory. _9155694
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650		0	_aDiscoveries in science _zEurope _xHistory _y17th century. _9155696
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650		0	_aScience _xHistory. _9155697
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