Science : a four thousand year history / Patricia Fara.
By: Fara, Patricia
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BookPublisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010Description: xviii, 482 p. : ill., maps ; 20 cm.ISBN: 9780199580279 (pbk.).Subject(s): Science -- History | Science and civilization| Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due |
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General Shelf | English | Q 125 F219 (Browse shelf) | 1 | Available |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [431]-459) and index.
1: Origins -- Sevens -- Babylon -- Heroes -- Cosmos -- Life -- Matter -- Technology -- 2: Interactions -- Eurocentrism -- China -- Islam -- Scholarship -- Europe -- Aristotle -- Alchemy -- 3: Experiments -- Exploration -- Magic -- Astronomy -- Bodies -- Machines -- Instruments -- Gravity -- 4: Institutions -- Societies -- Systems -- Careers -- Industries -- Revolutions -- Rationality -- Disciplines -- 5: Laws -- Progress -- Globalization -- Objectivity -- God -- Evolution -- Power -- Time -- 6: Invisibles -- Life -- Germs -- Rays -- Particles -- Genes -- Chemicals -- Uncertainties -- 7: Decisions -- Warfare -- Heredity -- Cosmology -- Information -- Rivalry -- Environment -- Futures.
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