Expanding horizons in the history of science the comparative approach
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 a...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press
2021.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009794040306719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- On aspects of the status quaestionis
- Translatability, intelligibility, revisability
- Demystifying the Greek miracle
- The question of causal factors
- The criteria of theories, simplicity for instance
- Supplementary note on Greek astronomical models
- Definitions and the problems of foreclosure
- The challenge of 'mythology'
- Elements, processes, substances, stuff
- Health and disease, illness and well-being
- Mind, body, heart, brain, soul, spirit.
