TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bala,Arun
TI  - The dialogue of civilizations in the birth of modern science
SN  - 9780230609792 (pbk.)
AV  - Q 125 B171d 2008
U1  - 509 
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Basingstoke
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Science
KW  - History
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Science and civilization
KW  - Ciencias
KW  - Historia
KW  - Filosofía
KW  - Ciencia y civilización
N1  - Originally published: 2006; Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction -- Why did modern science not develop in civilization X? -- The Eurocentric history of science -- Multicultural histories of science -- Towards a thematic approach to multicultural history -- What made the Renaissance in Europe? -- The narrow Copernican revolution -- The Alhazen optical revolution -- The modern atomic revolution -- Integrating Hellenic and Indian traditions -- Universal mathematical laws in a mechanical universe -- Fusing solar and stellar cosmologies -- The wider Copernican revolution -- Contrasting competitive plausibility
ER  -