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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Subject
- Asia -- Intellectual life -- History -- 15th century
- Européens + Acculturation -- Asie -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
- Natuurwetenschappen
- Europe -- Intellectual life -- History -- 20th century
- Sciences -- Europe -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
- Asia
- Science -- Asia -- History -- 15th century
- 1400-1999
- Science
- Europe
- History
- Intellectual life
- Sciences -- Asie -- Histoire -- 15e siècle
- Science -- Europe -- History -- 20th century
- Acculturation + history
- Europeans + Cultural assimilation
- Technologie
- Europe -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
- Europeans + Cultural assimilation -- Asia -- History -- 20th century
- Asia -- Intellectual life -- 15th century
- Asie -- Vie intellectuelle -- Histoire -- 15e siècle
- Europe -- Vie intellectuelle -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
- Science + history
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- Classification3
- Creator1
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- Subject23
- Asia -- Intellectual life -- History -- 15th century
- Européens + Acculturation -- Asie -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
- Natuurwetenschappen
- Europe -- Intellectual life -- History -- 20th century
- Sciences -- Europe -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
- Asia
- Science -- Asia -- History -- 15th century
- 1400-1999
- Science
- Europe
- History
- Intellectual life
- Sciences -- Asie -- Histoire -- 15e siècle
- Science -- Europe -- History -- 20th century
- Acculturation + history
- Europeans + Cultural assimilation
- Technologie
- Europe -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
- Europeans + Cultural assimilation -- Asia -- History -- 20th century
- Asia -- Intellectual life -- 15th century
- Asie -- Vie intellectuelle -- Histoire -- 15e siècle
- Europe -- Vie intellectuelle -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
- Science + history
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