"The translation (subsidised by the Dutch Foundation for Literature) is a coproduction by Chris Emery and the author."
Originally published in Dutch as: De herschepping van de wereld : het ontstaan van de moderne natuurwetenschap verklaard (Amsterdam : Uitgeverij Bert Bakker, 2007).
Includes bibliographical references and index.
To begin at the beginning: nature-knowledge in Greece and China -- Islamic civilization and medieval and Renaissance Europe -- Three revolutionary transformations -- A crisis surmounted -- Expansion, threefold -- Revolutionary transformation continued.
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Covers scientific discovery from approximately 1500-1699.--