The dialogue of civilizations in the birth of modern science /
[Book]
Arun Bala.
1st Palgrave pbk. ed.
Basingstoke :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2008.
xii, 230 p. ;
22 cm.
Originally published: 2006.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Why did modern science not develop in civilization X? -- The Eurocentric history of science -- Multicultural histories of science -- Towards a thematic approach to multicultural history -- What made the Renaissance in Europe? -- The narrow Copernican revolution -- The Alhazen optical revolution -- The modern atomic revolution -- Integrating Hellenic and Indian traditions -- Universal mathematical laws in a mechanical universe -- Fusing solar and stellar cosmologies -- The wider Copernican revolution -- Contrasting competitive plausibility.