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The Scientific Revolution in Global Perspective
William E. Burns
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Description for The Scientific Revolution in Global Perspective
Paperback. This is the only book on the Scientific Revolution that incorporates a world history perspective. Num Pages: 216 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 234 x 19. Weight in Grams: 302.
In The Scientific Revolution in Global Perspective, William Burns places the Scientific Revolution, its causes and effects, in a global context. It breaks with the Eurocentric tradition of previous surveys to fully reimagine the emergence of modern science on a global scale. Based on cutting-edge scholarship, Burns fluidly integrates the history of the Scientific Revolution in a convincing and seamless fashion, providing the reader with a new appreciation for the origins of the global, technological world around them.
In The Scientific Revolution in Global Perspective, William Burns places the Scientific Revolution, its causes and effects, in a global context. It breaks with the Eurocentric tradition of previous surveys to fully reimagine the emergence of modern science on a global scale. Based on cutting-edge scholarship, Burns fluidly integrates the history of the Scientific Revolution in a convincing and seamless fashion, providing the reader with a new appreciation for the origins of the global, technological world around them.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780199989331
SKU
V9780199989331
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Ref
99-42
About William E. Burns
William Burns is a historian who lives in the Washington, DC metro area with interests in the early modern world and the history of science. His previous works include: The Scientific Revolution: An Encyclopedia (2001); Science in the Enlightenment: An Encyclopedia (2003); Science and Technology in Colonial America (2005) and Science in World History (2011).
Reviews for The Scientific Revolution in Global Perspective
The Scientific Revolution in Global Perspective is a cutting-edge history of science that adopts an impressively broad scope, not only geographically, but historiographically as well...The book fill an unexploited niche and draws on cutting-edge scholarship in the process."
Andrew Keitt, University of Alabama at Birmingham
The Scientific Revolution in Global Perspective is a clearly written text, rich with examples, that broadens the social context of the development of early modern western science. It places the major currents of the Scientific Revolution within the larger world of European trade and expansion and the use of new knowledge. In so doing, it reveals the wider motivations and global connections of scientific innovation."
William Kimler, North Carolina State University
The integration of the global context is both convincing and seamless, creating an inviting narrative from which students will gain new perspective on the history of science and, in doing so, a new appreciation for the origins of the global, technological world around them."
Brian Jeffrey Maxson, East Tennessee State University
Andrew Keitt, University of Alabama at Birmingham
The Scientific Revolution in Global Perspective is a clearly written text, rich with examples, that broadens the social context of the development of early modern western science. It places the major currents of the Scientific Revolution within the larger world of European trade and expansion and the use of new knowledge. In so doing, it reveals the wider motivations and global connections of scientific innovation."
William Kimler, North Carolina State University
The integration of the global context is both convincing and seamless, creating an inviting narrative from which students will gain new perspective on the history of science and, in doing so, a new appreciation for the origins of the global, technological world around them."
Brian Jeffrey Maxson, East Tennessee State University