Ofer Gal

The Origins of Modern Science

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The first textbook to cover the history of science from antiquity through the Scientific Revolution.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 414
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 892g
• ISBN-13: 9781316510308
• ISBN-10: 1316510301
• Artikelnr.: 60159653

Autorenporträt

Ofer Gal is Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Sydney and has been teaching the history of science for over a quarter century. He has won numerous prizes and has published monographs, edited volumes and articles, especially about early modern physical sciences, but also on the global knowledge, eighteenth-century chemistry, and various philosophical issues.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Cathedrals
2. Greek Thought
3. The Birth of Astronomy
4. Medieval Learning
5. The Seeds of Revolution
6. Magic
7. The Moving Earth
8. Medicine and the Body
9. The New Science
10. The Road to the Principia.