Covers scientific discovery from approximately 1500-1699.--

For centuries, laymen and priests, lone thinkers and philosophical schools in Greece, China, the Islamic world and Europe reflected with wisdom and perseverance

Now in its third edition, The Rise of Early Modern Science argues that to understand why modern science arose in the West it is essential to study not only the

At a time when religion and science are seen by many to be antagonists locked in a battle to the death, Professor Hooykaas offers a startling proposition: moder

On industrial procurement, a Brit view. A collection of comment upon Merton's Science, technology, and society in seventeenth century England. Annotation copyri

A collection of essays exploring the relations between music and the scientific culture of Galileo's time. It takes a broad historical approach towards understa

“There was no such thing as the Scientific Revolution, and this is a book about it.” With this provocative and apparently paradoxical claim, Steven Shapin b

This book presents a study of historical sociology and a comparison of ancient Greece’s and ancient China’s intellectual developments. It provides a special

Volume addressing questions that drove the entire project.

The chapters explore the possible development of a new scholarly synthesis for the study of religion, founded on the triadic space constituted by evolution, cog