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First published in 1969.

The historical civilization of China is, with the Indian and European-Semitic, one of the three greatest in the world, yet only relatively recently has any enquiry been begun into its achievements in science and technology. Between the first and fifteenth centuries the Chinese were generally far in advance of Europe and it was not until the scientific revolution of the Renaissance that Europe drew ahead. Throughout those fifteen centuries, and ever since, the West has been profoundly affected by the discoveries and invention emanating from China and East Asia. <

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Science and civilization. --- Michael, --- Aristotle. --- Science and civilization --- Civilization and science --- History and science --- Science and history --- Science and society --- Progress

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South Africa provides a unique vantage point from which to examine the scientific imagination over the last three centuries, when its position on the African continent made it a staging post for Portuguese, Dutch, and British colonialism. In the eighteenth century, South African plants and animals caught the imagination of visiting Europeans. In the nineteenth century, science became central to imperial conquest, devastating wars, agricultural intensification and the exploitation of rich mineral resources. Scientific work both facilitated, and offered alternatives to, the imposition of segregation and apartheid in the twentieth century. William Beinart and Saul Dubow offer an innovative exploration of science and technology in this complex, divided society. Bridging a range of disciplines from astronomy to zoology, they demonstrate how scientific knowledge shaped South Africa's peculiar path to modernity. In so doing, they examine the work of remarkable individual scientists and institutions, as well as the contributions of leading politicians from Jan Smuts to Thabo Mbeki.

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Connu pour ses travaux sur Kepler dont il est un éminent spécialiste comme pour ses études classiques sur l'optique antique et médiévale, Gérard Simon reconsidère l'ensemble de ses recherches, leurs apports et la méthode qu'il a adoptée, en développant une réflexion à la fois personnelle et générale sur les sciences dans leur rapport à l'histoire. Il revient ainsi sur la constitution du savoir scientifique en insistant sur sa dépendance à l'égard du contexte où il naît mais aussi sur le caractère d'événement créatif, singulier et somme toute aléatoire de toute découverte marquante, qu'elle soit le résultat d'une innovation d'ordre spéculatif, théorique, technique ou social. En rendant de la sorte à la pensée scientifique son caractère événementiel, il poursuit sur l'histoire en général la réflexion qui l'a fait passer d'une vision déterministe à une perception contingente de son déroulement. Ce qui le conduit à une meilleure appréciation de ce que l'on peut attendre des sciences à partir de leur genèse et de leur portée, mais aussi à des vues nouvelles sur le tableau des savoirs contemporains, la place qu'y tient l'histoire et le lieu d'une philosophie vivante

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