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Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
August 2021
Print publication year:
2021
Online ISBN:
9781009029285
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Creative Common License - CC Creative Common License - BY Creative Common License - NC
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Book description

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 admittedly pose severe problems for our understanding. But rather than dismiss them on the grounds that they are incommensurable with our own and to that extent unintelligible, we should see them as offering opportunities for us to revise many of our own preconceptions. We should accept that the realities to be accounted for are multi-dimensional and that all such accounts are to some extent value-laden. In the process insights from current anthropology and the study of ancient Greece and China especially are brought to bear to suggest how the remit of the history of science can be expanded to achieve a cross-cultural perspective on the problems.

Reviews

‘This text is aimed at academic historians of science interested in the intercultural complexities of the field, demonstrating how investigating approaches and results from studies of nature in past cultural contexts (using the tools of contemporary disciplines) can enrich current and future research in the history of science … Recommended.’

J. W. Dauben Source: Choice

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Contents

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  • Expanding Horizons in the History of Science
    pp i-ii
  • Expanding Horizons in the History of Science - Title page
    pp iii-iii
  • The Comparative Approach
  • Copyright page
    pp iv-iv
  • Contents
    pp v-v
  • Figures
    pp vi-vi
  • Additional material
    pp vii-viii
  • Introduction
    pp 1-7
  • Chapter 1 - On Aspects of the Status Quaestionis
    pp 8-22
  • Chapter 2 - Translatability, Intelligibility, Revisability
    pp 23-31
  • Chapter 3 - Demystifying the Greek Miracle
    pp 32-43
  • Chapter 4 - The Question of Causal Factors
    pp 44-56
  • Chapter 5 - The Criteria of Theories, Simplicity for Instance
    pp 57-70
  • Chapter 5a - Supplementary Note on Greek Astronomical Models
    pp 71-74
  • Chapter 6 - Definitions and the Problems of Foreclosure
    pp 75-85
  • Chapter 7 - The Challenge of ‘Mythology’
    pp 86-94
  • Chapter 8 - Elements, Processes, Substances, Stuff
    pp 95-105
  • Chapter 9 - Health and Disease, Illness and Well-Being
    pp 106-114
  • Chapter 10 - Mind, Body, Heart, Brain, Soul, Spirit
    pp 115-128
  • Conclusions
    pp 129-134
  • Bibliography
    pp 135-147
  • Index
    pp 148-156

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