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001 2010021876
003 DLC
005 20110302101411.0
008 100524s2011 enka b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2010021876
020 $a9781107000827
020 $a9780521170529 (pbk.)
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
042 $apcc
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050 00 $aQ127.E8$bH84 2011
082 00 $a509.4$222
100 1 $aHuff, Toby E.,$d1942-
245 10 $aIntellectual curiosity and the scientific revolution :$ba global perspective /$cToby E. Huff.
260 $aCambridge ;$aNew York :$bCambridge University Press,$c2011.
300 $axiii, 354 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
520 $a"Seventeenth-century Europe witnessed an extraordinary flowering of discoveries and innovations. This study, beginning with the Dutch-invented telescope of 1608, casts Galileo's discoveries into a global framework. Although the telescope was soon transmitted to China, Mughal India, and the Ottoman Empire, those civilizations did not respond as Europeans did to the new instrument. In Europe, there was an extraordinary burst of innovations in microscopy, human anatomy, optics, pneumatics, electrical studies, and the science of mechanics. Nearly all of those aided the emergence of Newton's revolutionary grand synthesis, which unified terrestrial and celestial physics under the law of universal gravitation. That achievement had immense implications for all aspects of modern science, technology, and economic development. The economic implications are set out in the concluding epilogue. All these unique developments suggest why the West experienced a singular scientific and economic ascendancy of at least four centuries"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 321-339) and index.
650 0 $aScience$zEurope$xHistory.
650 0 $aScience$xExperiments$xHistory.
650 0 $aDiscoveries in science$zEurope$xHistory$y17th century.
650 0 $aScienc$zEurope$xHistory$y17th century.
650 0 $aScience$xHistory.
856 42 $3Cover image$uhttp://assets.cambridge.org/97805211/70529/cover/9780521170529.jpg
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1010/2010021876-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1010/2010021876-d.html
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1010/2010021876-t.html