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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Egile nagusia: Lloyd, G. E. R. (Geoffrey Ernest Richard), 1933- (Egilea)
Formatua: Licensed eBooks
Hizkuntza:ingelesa
Argitaratua: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021.
Sarrera elektronikoa:https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009029285
Aurkibidea:
  • 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.