Intellectual Curiosity and the Scientific Revolution: A Global Perspective

ISBN: 9780521170529 出版年：2010 页码：370 Huff Cambridge University Press

Part I. Something New Under the Sun: 1. Introduction: outline of a new perspective 2. Inventing the discovery machine 3. The new telescopic evidence 4. The 'far seeing looking glass' goes to China 5. 'Galileo's glass' goes to the Muslim world Part II. Patterns of Education: 6. Three ideals of higher education: Islamic, Chinese, and Western Part III. Science Unbound: 7. Infectious curiosity I: anatomy and microbiology 8. Infectious curiosity II: weighing the air and atmospheric pressure 9. Infectious curiosity III: magnetism and electricity 10. Prelude to the grand synthesis 11. The path to the grand synthesis 12. The scientific revolution in comparative perspective Epilogue: science, literacy and economic development.