Companion to the History of Modern Science (Routledge Companion Encyclopedias) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415019885 ISBN 13: 9780415019880

Publisher: Routledge, 1989

Synopsis

* A descriptive and analytical guide to the development of Western science from AD 1500, and to the diversity and course of that development first in Europe and later across the world * Presented in clear, non-technical language * Extensive indexes of Subjects and Names `Indeed a companion volume whose 67 essays give pleasure and instruction ... an ambitious and successful work.' - Times Literary Supplement `This work is an essential resource for libraries everywhere. For specialist science libraries willing to keep just one encyclopaedic guide to history, for undergraduate libraries seeking to provide easily accessible information, for the devisers of university curricula, for the modern social historian or even the eclectic scientist taking a break from simply making history, this is the book for you.' - Times Higher Education Supplement `A pleasure to read with a carefully chosen typeface, well organized pages and ample margins ... it is very easy to find one's way around. This is a book which will be consulted widely.' - Technovation `This is a commendably easy book to use.' - British Journal of the History of Science `Scholars from other areas entering this field, students taking the vertical approach and teachers coming from any direction cannot fail to find this an invaluable text.' - History of Science Journal

About this title

About the Author

Robert Olby, Geoffrey Cantor, John Christie, and Jonathon Hodge are all in the Division of the History of Science at the University of Leeds.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415019885
• ISBN 13: 9780415019880
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 1108
• Editor: Cantor G N, Cantor G.N., Christie J.R.R., Hodge M.J.S., Olby R.C.