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THE RISE OF MODERN SCIENCE EXPLAINED: COMPARATIVE HSTRY

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<P>For centuries, laymen and priests, lone thinkers and philosophical schools in Greece, China, the Islamic world and Europe reflected with wisdom and perseverance on how the natural world fits together. As a rule, their methods and conclusions, while often ingenious, were misdirected when viewed from the perspective of modern science. In the 1600s thinkers such as Galileo, Kepler, Descartes, Bacon and many others gave revolutionary new twists to traditional ideas and practices, culminating in the work of Isaac Newton half a century later. It was as if the world was being created anew. But why did this recreation begin in Europe rather than elsewhere? This book caps H. Floris Cohen's career-long effort to find answers to this classic question. Here he sets forth a rich but highly accessible account of what, against many odds, made it happen and why.</P>

The Rise of Modern Science Explained

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Front Cover.
The Rise of Modern Science Explained.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Contents.
Introduction: The Old World and the New.
To Begin at the Beginning: Nature-Knowledge in Greece and China.
1: In Athens.
2: In Alexandria.
3: Athens and Alexandria: Two Modes of Nature-Knowledge Compared.
4: Decline: An Established Pattern.
5: The Way and Its Synthesis.
6: Greek and Chinese Nature-Knowledge Compared.
7: Development Potential as Core Explanation.
Islamic Civilisation and Medieval and Renaissance Europe.
8: Matters of Translation and Forms of Enrichment.
9: Islamic Civilisation: Special Developments.
10: Medieval Europe: Special Developments.
11: Renaissance Europe: Special Developments.
12: A Trend-Watcher in 1600: The Three Transplantations Compared.
Three Revolutionary Transformations.
13: Kepler And Galileo: From &#x2018;Alexandria&#x2019; to &#x2018;Alexandria-Plus&#x2019;.
14: Beeckman and Descartes: From &#x2018;Athens&#x2019; to &#x2018;Athens-Plus&#x2019;.
15: Bacon, Gilbert, Harvey, Van Helmont: From Observation to Experiment.
16: Why Europe?.
A Crisis Surmounted.
17: Nature-Knowledge and Religious Conceptions of the World.
18: A Crisis of Legitimacy.
19: Europe&#x0027;s Narrow Escape.
Expansion, Threefold.
20: &#x2018;Alexandria-Plus&#x2019; Spreads Like Wildfire.
21: &#x2018;Athens-Plus&#x2019; Catches On.
22: Exploratory Experiment Gains Ground.
Revolutionary Transformation Continued.
23: Barriers Broken Down.
24: Mathematical Science Enriched with Corpuscles: Huygens and the Young Newton.
25: The Baconian Brew: Boyle, Hooke and the Young Newton.
26: The Great Synthesis: Newton Rounds Off the Revolution.
Epilogue: A Look Back and a Look Ahead.
27: A Veritable Revolution?.
28: The Rise of Modern Science Explained: A Recapitulation.
29: Further Revolutions: Industrial and &#x2018;Second Scientific&#x2019;.
Timeline 1: Pre-1600.
Timeline 2: 1600&#x2013;1700.
A Note on the Literature.
Provenance of Quoted Passages.
Index.

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