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Title: Rise of Early Modern Science, The: Islam, China, and the West
Author: HUFF TOBY E
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 30/06/2017
Imprint: CAMBRIDGE UNI PRESS
Price: $42.95
Publishing status: Active
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 technical aspects of scientific thought but also the religious, legal and institutional arrangements that either opened the doors for enquiry, or restricted scientific investigations. Toby E. Huff explores how the newly invented universities of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, and the European legal revolution, created a neutral space that gave birth to the scientific revolution. Including expanded comparative analysis of the European, Islamic and Chinese legal systems, Huff now responds to the debates of the last decade to explain why the Western world was set apart from other civilisations.
ISBN: 9781107571075
Dimension: 228mm X 152mm
Pages: 450