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  Book Title: Intellectual Curiosity and the Scientific Revolution: A Global Perspective	 	
  Book
Author:  Toby E. Huff
   Paperback: 368 pages
   Publisher: Cambridge
University Press (October 11, 2010)
   Language: English
   ISBN-10: 0521170524
   ISBN-13:
978-0521170529
  
  Book Description
  Publication Date: October 11, 2010 | ISBN-10: 0521170524 | ISBN-13: 978-0521170529
 
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 Ottoman Empire, those civilizations did not respond as Europeans
did to the new instrument. In Europe, there was an extraordinary burst of innovations in microscopy, human anatomy,
optics, pneumatics, electrical studies, and the science of mechanics. Nearly all of those aided the emergence of
Newton's revolutionary grand synthesis, which unified terrestrial and celestial physics under the law of universal
gravitation. That achievement had immense implications for all aspects of modern science, technology, and economic
development. The economic implications are set out in the concluding epilogue. All these unique developments suggest why
the West experienced a singular scientific and economic ascendancy of at least four centuries.
  

 Reviews
  "A magisterial comparative sociology of the relationship between
specific social contexts and scientific creativity in seventeenth-century Europe, the Ottoman Empire, Mughal India, and
China. With a remarkable eye for detail, Huff elegantly poses the big questions about the past, present, and possible
future of modern science in a globalized world." - Zaheer Baber, University of Toronto
  
  "Using the invention and dispersal of the telescope as a probe, Toby Huff examines the initial impact
of this discovery machine in Europe compared with the Ottoman and Mughal empires and Ming China. He then turns to other
scientific discoveries of the West and their surprisingly absent influence elsewhere. Huff's carefully documented
research brings this material together in an altogether new way. His fascinating and lucid historico-sociological
investigation casts brilliant light on the preeminence of the West today." - Owen Gingerich,
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
  
  "Intellectual Curiosity and the Scientific
Revolution disseminates genuine information about the crucial role played by the West in the history of science, showing
that after many centuries of near scientific inactivity, the West, beginning in the twelfth century, saw the virtue of
absorbing science and natural philosophy from Greco-Islamic sources. For the numerous reasons Huff presents, the culture
of the West, with its corporations, universities, and other features, made it feasible for science to emerge as a
powerful force. Huff presents this entire process in a lucid and engaging manner, using the telescope as the instrument
that most vividly reveals the striking differences between Europe and the civilizations of China, the Mughals, and the
Ottomans. I believe his book will have a significant impact on the history of science, and on history generally." - Edward Grant, Indiana University
  
  "This is a well-researched,
objectively written, eminently readable book. Anyone interested in any dimension of modern science and technology will
find it useful." - Rajesh Kochhar, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research,
Mohali
  
  "Recommended." -Choice
  
 
"...essential reading for all historians of science..." -James Hannam, Quodlibeta
 

  "Toby E. Huff's project in Intellectual Curiosity and the Scientific Revolution: A Global Perspective
is to explore what happened after 1500 to trigger this singular convergence and climax." -J.
B. Shank, Journal of World History
  
  Book Description
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  This study begins with the Dutch-invented telescope of 1608 and then casts Galileo's discoveries
with it into a global framework. Although the telescope was soon transmitted to China, Mughal India, and the Ottoman
Empire, those civilizations did not respond as Europeans did to the new instrument. These and subsequent unique
developments in modern science, technology, and educational practice suggest why the West experienced a singular
scientific and economic ascendancy of at least four centuries.
  
  About the
Author
  Toby Huff is a Research Associate at Harvard University
in the Department of Astronomy and Chancellor Professor Emeritus in Policy Studies at the University of Massachusetts,
Dartmouth. He has lectured in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East and lived in Malaysia. He is the author of The Rise of
Early Modern Science: Islam, China and the West (Cambridge University Press, 2nd edition, 2003), co-editor with Wolfgang
Schluchter of Max Weber and Islam (1999), and author of An Age of Science and Revolutions, 1600-1800 (2005).  						

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