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020			_a9780511782206 (ebook)
020			_z9781107000827 (hardback)
020			_z9780521170529 (paperback)
040			_aUkCbUP _beng _erda _cUkCbUP _dBD-SySUS.
050	0	0	_aQ127.E8 _bH84 2011
082	0	0	_a509.4 _222
100	1		_aHuff, Toby E., _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aIntellectual Curiosity and the Scientific Revolution : _bA Global Perspective / _cToby E. Huff.
246	3		_aIntellectual Curiosity & the Scientific Revolution
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2010.
300			_a1 online resource (368 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016).
520			_aSeventeenth-century Europe witnessed an extraordinary flowering of discoveries and innovations. This study, beginning with the Dutch-invented telescope of 1608, casts Galileo's discoveries into a global framework. Although the telescope was soon transmitted to China, Mughal India, and the Ottoman Empire, those civilizations did not respond as Europeans did to the new instrument. In Europe, there was an extraordinary burst of innovations in microscopy, human anatomy, optics, pneumatics, electrical studies, and the science of mechanics. Nearly all of those aided the emergence of Newton's revolutionary grand synthesis, which unified terrestrial and celestial physics under the law of universal gravitation. That achievement had immense implications for all aspects of modern science, technology, and economic development. The economic implications are set out in the concluding epilogue. All these unique developments suggest why the West experienced a singular scientific and economic ascendancy of at least four centuries.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9781107000827
856	4	0	_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511782206
942			_2Dewey Decimal Classification _ceBooks
999			_c38079 _d38079