The Rise of Modern Science Explained

Covers scientific discovery from approximately 1500-1699.

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

An examination of the role played by the Bible in the emergence of natural science.

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

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

Volume addressing questions that drove the entire project.