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Science and technology in world history an introduction

James E. McClellan (James Edward) 1946- Harold Dorn 1928-

Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Press 2006

Available at EACH - Esc. Artes, Ciências e Humanidades    (509 M126c 2.ed. ) and other locations(GetIt)

  • Title:
    Science and technology in world history an introduction
  • Author: James E. McClellan (James Edward) 1946-
  • Harold Dorn 1928-
  • Subjects: Science -- History; Technology -- History; Tool and die makers -- History; HISTÓRIA DA CIÊNCIA; TECNOLOGIA (HISTÓRIA)
  • Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
  • Description: Preface -- Introduction : the guiding themes -- From ape to Alexander -- Humankind emerges : tools and toolmakers -- reign of the farmer -- Pharaohs and engineers -- Greeks bearing gifts -- Alexandria and after -- Thinking and doing among the world's peoples -- enduring East -- middle kingdom -- Indus, Ganges, and beyond -- new world -- Europe and the solar system -- Plows, stirrups, guns, and plagues -- Copernicus incites a revolution -- crime and punishment of Galileo Galilei -- "God said, 'let Newton be!'" -- Science and industrial civilization -- Timber, coal, cloth, and steam -- Legacies of revolution -- Life itself -- Toolmakers take command -- new Aristotelians -- bomb and the genome -- Under today's pharaohs -- Conclusion : the medium of history -- Guide to resources -- Illustration credits -- Index
    Includes information on agricultural revolution, agriculture, alchemy, Aristotle, astrology, astronomy, Babylonia, Bible, Britain, calendars, China, Christianity, cities, city states, Nicholas Copernicus, education, Egypt, elements, Euclid, France, Galileo Galilei, geocentrism, geometry, Germany, Greece, heliocentricism, Hellenic period, Hellenistic period, hieroglyphs, Hinduism, Hippocrates, Holy Roman Empire, Human Genome Project, Hwang Ho, India, industrial revolution, iron, irrigation, Islam, Italy, mathematics, mechanics, medicine, Mesopotamia, metallurgy, Middle Ages, military revolution, Ming dynasty, Moon, motion, natural philosophy, natural selection, Neolithic era, Netherlands, Isaac Newton, optics, Paris, patronage, Persia, physics, planets, population, Protestantism, Claudius Ptolemy, religion, Renaissance, Rome (ancient), Rome (city), scientific revolution, shipbuilding, slavery, scientific societies, Song dynasties, Soviet Union, Spain, stars, Sun, telescopes, time reckoning, United States, universities, urban revolution, warfare, women in science, World War I, World War II, writing, etc
  • Publisher: Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Press
  • Creation Date: 2006
  • Format: ix, 478 p. ill. 24 cm.
  • Language: English
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