Intellectual curiosity and the scientific revolution : a global perspective /
"Seventeenth-century Europe witnessed an extraordinary flowering of discoveries and innovations. This study, beginning with the Dutch-invented telescope of 1608, casts Galileo's discoveries into a global framework. Although the telescope was soon transmitted to China, Mughal India, and the...
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Main Author: |
Huff, Toby E., 1942- |
Format: | Book
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Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2011.
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