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Author(s): Toby E. Huff
ISBN(s): 9780521529945, 0521529948
Edition: 2
File Details: PDF, 5.38 MB
Year: 2003
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0521529948 
ISBN 13: 9780521529945
Author: Toby E Huff

Toby Huff examines the long-standing question of why modern science arose only in the West and not in the civilizations of Islam and China, despite the fact that medieval Islam and China were more scientifically advanced. Huff explores the cultural contexts within which science was practiced in Islam, China, and the West. He finds major clues in the history of law and the European cultural revolution of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, as to why the ethos of science arose in the West and permitted the breakthrough to modern science that did not occur elsewhere. 

The Rise of Early Modern Science Islam China and the West 2nd Table of contents:

Part I
Introduction
The Public Sphere and Neutral Space
Social and Cultural Impacts
The Path Ahead
Chapter 1 The Comparative Study of Science
The Modernity of Science
Science as a Civilizational Institution
Elements of the Sociological Perspective
The Role of the Scientist
The Ethos of Science
Paradigms and Scientific Communities
Comparative Civilizational Sociology of Science: Joseph Needham (1900–1994)
Benjamin Nelson: Universalization and Wider Spheres of Discourse
Conclusion: The Issues at Hand
Chapter 2 Arabic Science and the Islamic World
The Problem of Arabic Science
The Achievements of Arabic Astronomy
The Tusi Couple
A Different Path
Without Which No One Is a Scientist
Chapter 3 Philosophy, Science, and Civilizational Configurations
Part I The Advent of Islam: Creeds and Doctrines
Designing a Religious Empire
The New Creeds
The Response of Kalam: Islamic Religious Philosophy
The Translation Movement: Science versus Knowledge
Plato: The Missing Dialogues
Part II Reason, Man, and Nature in Europe
Chapter 4 The European Legal Revolution
Law and Revolution
Restraining Prince and Pope
Law, Commerce, and Self-government
Legally Autonomous Universities
The Papal Revolution
Legal Autonomy and Corporate Entities
Stasis or Change in Islamic Law
Islamic Legal Literature
Legal Autonomy?
Due Process
Conclusion
Chapter 5 Madrasas and the Transmitted Sciences
The Islamic Educational Trajectory
Islamic Protoscientific Institutions
Islamic Hospitals
Constraints on the Study of Anatomy
The Observatory
Conclusion
Chapter 6 Universities and the Institutionalization of Science
Medicine and the Universities: Universalistic Norms & New Inquiries
Dissection and the European Universities
Part II
Chapter 7 Science and Civilization in China
Philosophy of Nature in Chinese Thought
The Rise of Imperial China
Chinese Law
The Vagaries of Due Procedures
Managing Cases
A Role for Litigation Masters
Chapter 8 Education, Examinations, and Neo-Confucianism
Neo-Confucian Education and Civil Service Examinations
Steps on the Way
Doctrinal Rigidity
Meritocracy?
Appendix Anatomy and Post-mortems in China
Chapter 9 Poverties and Triumphs of Chinese Science
China’s Different Path
Chinese Mathematics
The Jesuit Mission
Send Me an Astronomer
“Imperfect Transmission”?
Optics and Observation
Success or Failed Reform?
Indices of Progress
Conclusion
Appendix Books and Essays on Western Science and Astronomy Translated into Chinese by the Jesuits
Part III
Chapter 10 The Rise of Modern Science
The Multiple Dimensions of the Scientific Revolution
Butterfield’s Mental Transformation
Naturalist vs Humanist Roots of the Ethos of Science
Copernicus to Newton
Kepler’s Project
Toward a Newtonian Synthesis
From Revolutionary Treatise to Magnum Opus
The New Experimental Outlook
Epilogue – Science, History, and Development
Sociology and History Science: The Classic Paradigm
The Wireless World

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