Expanding horizons in the history of science : the comparative approach /
This book challenges the common assumption that the predominant focus of the history of science should be the achievements of Western scientists since the so-called Scientific Revolution. The conceptual frameworks within which the members of earlier societies and of modern indigenous groups worked a...
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| Fformat: | Licensed eBooks |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2021.
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| Mynediad Ar-lein: | https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009029285 |
Tabl Cynhwysion:
- On aspects of the status quaestionis
- Translatability, intelligibility, revisability
- Demystifying the Greek miracle
- The question of causal factors
- The criteria of theories, simplicity for instance
- Supplementary note on Greek astronomical models
- Definitions and the problems of foreclosure
- The challenge of 'mythology'
- Elements, processes, substances, stuff
- Health and disease, illness and well-being
- Mind, body, heart, brain, soul, spirit.