
Horizons
The Global Origins of Modern Science
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Narrated by:
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Sid Sagar
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James Poskett
The history of science as it has never been told before: a tale of outsiders and unsung heroes from far beyond the Western canon that most of us are taught.
When we think about the origins of modern science we usually begin in Europe. We remember the great minds of Nicolaus Copernicus, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, and Albert Einstein. But the history of science is not, and has never been, a uniquely European endeavor. Copernicus relied on mathematical techniques that came from Arabic and Persian texts. Newton’s laws of motion used astronomical observations made in Asia and Africa. 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 Bose.
Horizons is the history of science as 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. In this ambitious, revelatory history, James Poskett recasts the history of science, uncovering the vital contributions that scientists in Africa, America, Asia, and the Pacific have made to this global story.
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Essential for anyone interested in science
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This book however does not seek to denigrate the clear history and contributions of Europeans--instead it augments it. It it not "woke" or revisionist. It is additive and it does so in an enjoyable way.
Exceptional
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This all seems to be a diatribe against the idea that the Scientific Revolution did not really happen, and if it did happen, it was only because of the rapacious, save selling, invasions of the European continental powers. That case is made only if one does not grasp the central idea of Science- not an accumulation of facts, but the quest to find the connection, the reason things look as they do. And then experiment to show your idea works. This book fell far short of enlightenment.
A Woke version of Whig History of Science
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A history of science for out times
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