Bibliograph

Toward a global science, mining civilizational knowledge, Susantha Goonatilake

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Toward a global science, mining civilizational knowledge, Susantha Goonatilake

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-300) and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Toward a global science

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

40142941

Responsibility statement

Susantha Goonatilake

Series statement

Race, gender, and science

Sub title

mining civilizational knowledge

Summary

Using a model of the civilizational construction of science, the author views science without Eurocentric blinders. She shows how science was built by transfers from non-European groups and why the historiography of science has to be rethought

Table Of Contents

Viewing science without Eurocentric blinkers -- The trajectories of civilizational knowledge -- The background to crossflows: Where the East and the West did met -- Transformations -- Examples of mining for contemporary science -- Indigenous knowledge -- Medicine: Ayurveda -- Mathematics -- A search for new psychologies -- More imaginative explorations -- Traversing future technologies through some past concepts -- Virtual reality -- Digging deeper: Exploiting philosophy for science -- Toward a new millennium

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