The Dialogue of Civilizations in the Birth of Modern Science

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"Many historians argue that the origin of modern science is largely the unanticipated outcome of the Copernican theory that set the Earth in motion around the Sun. Adopting this theory, pioneering scientists such as Brahe, Kepler, Galileo, and Newton were led to groundbreaking discoveries in physics and cosmology designed to accommodate its heliocentric vision. It is generally assumed that they succeeded by drawing only upon the vast reservoir of intellectual ideas provided by the tradition of ancient Greek science. Arun Bala challenges this Eurocentric construction by showing how Chinese, Indian, Arabic, and ancient Egyptian ideas in philosophy, mathematics, cosmology and physics also played an indispensable role in making possible the birth of modern science."--Jacket.