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Authoritative and highly accessible account of how and why modern science arose in Europe through sustained comparison with other civilisations.

Produktbeschreibung
Authoritative and highly accessible account of how and why modern science arose in Europe through sustained comparison with other civilisations.
Autorenporträt
H. Floris Cohen studied history at Leyden University. He is Professor of Comparative History of Science at Utrecht University, where he serves as the Editor of the History of Science Society (journal: Isis). He first explored the rise of modern science by way of writing Quantifying Music (1984), and examined how other historians conceived of the rise of modern science in The Scientific Revolution: A Historiographical Inquiry (1994). He solved the problem of how modern science arose in How Modern Science Came Into the World: Four Civilizations, One 17th-Century Breakthrough (2010), of which the present volume is a shorter version, written in a different tone of voice for a larger academic public.
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'In this fresh and boldly innovative study, H. Floris Cohen challenges the general reader with a new, long-term, global framework for thinking comparatively about the historical conditions that produced those recognizably modern forms of scientific knowledge that took root in seventeenth-century Europe.' Robert S. Westman, University of California, San Diego