Burns, William E. (Author)
Oxford University Press
Publication date: 2016
Language: English
Physical Details: xv + 198 pp.; ill.
This is the first book to put the scientific revolution, its causes and effects, in a global context. It breaks with the Eurocentric tradition of previous scientific revolution surveys to fully reimagine the emergence of modern science as a process on a world scale. It has maps that for the first time situate the scientific revolution geographically
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