Time, science, and society in China and the West /
For the first fifteen centuries of Western civilization, the Chinese were far ahead of Europe in applying their knowledge of nature to useful purposes. Why, then, did modern mathematized science, with all its implications for advanced technology, rise meteorically in Renaissance Europe rather than i...
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Bibliographic Details
| Corporate Authors: |
International Society for the Study of Time,
International Society for the Study of Time Conference,
Study of Time |
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| Other Authors: |
Fraser, J. T (Julius Thomas), 1923-2010,
Haber, Francis C,
Lawrence, Nathaniel M (Nathaniel Morris), 1917-1986 |
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| Format: | Conference Proceeding
Book
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| Language: | English |
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| Published: |
Amherst :
University of Massachusetts Press,
1986
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| Series: | Study of time ;
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Study of time ;
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Study of time
5
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