Science and technology in world history : an introduction / James E. McClellan III and Harold Dorn.

Science and technology in world history : an introduction / James E. McClellan III and Harold Dorn.

Second edition.

0801883601 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780801883606 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0801883598 (alk. paper)
9780801883590 (alk. paper)

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.

English

ix, 478 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Q125 .M414 2006

509

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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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