Horizons: The Global Origins of Modern Science Poskett James
Horizons: The Global Origins of Modern Science Poskett James This is the history of science like it has never been told before, uncovering its unsung heroes and revealing that the most important…
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Horizons: The Global Origins of Modern Science Poskett James
This is the history of science like it has never been told before, uncovering its unsung heroes and revealing that the most important scientific breakthroughs have come from the exchange of ideas from different cultures around the world.When we think about the origins of modern science we usually begin in Europe. But the history of science is not, and has never been, a uniquely European endeavor. We remember the great minds of Nicolaus Copernicus, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, and Albert Einstein.
Newton's laws of motion used astronomical observations made in Asia and Africa. Copernicus relied on mathematical techniques that came from Arabic and Persian texts. When Darwin was writing On the Origin of Species, he consulted a sixteenth-century Chinese encyclopedia.
And when Einstein studied quantum mechanics, he was inspired by the Bengali physicist, Satyendra Nath
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