Toward a Global Science

Toward a Global Science
Author: Susantha Goonatilake
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 332
Release: 1998
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780253211828


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Using a model of the civilizational construction of science, the author views science without Eurocentric blinders. She shows how science was built by transfers from non-European groups and why the historiography of science has to be rethought.


Toward a Global Science
Language: en
Pages: 334
Authors: Susantha Goonatilake
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998 - Publisher: Indiana University Press

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Asian science such as mathematics, Chinese printing, gunpowder and the compass, all contributed to the development of European science. During the last few cent
Toward a Global Science
Language: en
Pages: 332
Authors: Susantha Goonatilake
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998 - Publisher: Indiana University Press

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Using a model of the civilizational construction of science, the author views science without Eurocentric blinders. She shows how science was built by transfers
Toward a Global Civil Society
Language: en
Pages: 352
Authors: Michael Walzer
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 1995-01-01 - Publisher: Berghahn Books

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The demise of Communism has not only affected Eastern Europe but also the countries of the West where a far-reaching examination of political and economic syste
Toward a Global Psychology
Language: en
Pages: 466
Authors: Michael J. Stevens
Categories: Psychology
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007 - Publisher: Psychology Press

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Toward a More Natural Science
Language: en
Pages: 389
Authors: Leon R. Kass
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-06-30 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster

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Kass shows how the promise and the peril of our time are inextricably linked with the promise and the peril of modern science. The relation between the pursuit