Intellectual curiosity and the scientific revolution : a global perspective / Toby E. Huff.
"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 E...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
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2011.
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 354 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Format: | Book |