Multicivilizational Exchanges in the Making of Modern Science: Needham's Dialogical Vision - Hardcover
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Multicivilizational Exchanges in the Making of Modern Science: Needham's Dialogical Vision
This book explores how and why exchanges across civilizations have come to enrich science today. The dialogical dimension of the history of science has long been marginalized by an excessive concern on why modern science emerged in Europe, but not in any of the advanced civilizations of the East. This focus upon what has been called Joseph Needham's "Grand Comparative Question" ignores his other...
Arun Bala is a physicist and philosopher of science. He is the author and editor of multiple books, including Complementarity Beyond Physics (2017) and Asia, Europe and the Emergence of Modern Science (2012). He is Director (Research) with Joseph Needham Foundation for Science and Civilization, and a Visiting Scholar with the Institute of History and Philosophy of Science and Technology in...
Edition
2024 Edition
Contributor(s)
Arun Bala (Editor), Raymond W. K. Lau (Editor), Jianjun Mei (Editor)
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