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• Author/Creator:Fara, Patricia.
  
• Title:Science : a four thousand year history / Patricia Fara.
  
• ISBN:9780199226894
  019922689X
  
• Edition:1st ed.
  
• Published/Created:Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
  
• Physical Description:xv, 408 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
  

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  • Call Number: Q125 .F27X 2009
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    

   
• Format:Book
• BibliographyIncludes bibliographical references (p. [375]-390) and index.
  
• Contents:1: Origins -- Sevens -- Babylon -- Heroes -- Cosmos -- Life -- Matter -- Technology -- 2: Interactions -- Eurocentrism -- China -- Islam -- Scholarship -- Europe -- Aristotle -- Alchemy -- 3: Experiments -- Exploration -- Magic -- Astronomy -- Bodies -- Machines -- Instruments -- Gravity -- 4: Institutions -- Societies -- Systems -- Careers -- Industries -- Revolutions -- Rationality -- Disciplines -- 5: Laws -- Progress -- Globalization -- Objectivity -- God -- Evolution -- Power -- Time -- 6: Invisibles -- Life -- Germs -- Rays -- Particles -- Genes -- Chemicals -- Uncertainties -- 7: Decisions -- Warfare -- Heredity -- Cosmology -- Information -- Rivalry -- Environment -- Futures.
  
• Subjects:Science--History.
  Science and civilization.