"This book attempts to introduce to its readers major chapters in the history of science. It tries to present science as a human endeavor - a great achievement,

* 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

The development of science, according to respected scholars Peter J. Bowler and Iwan Rhys Morus, expands our knowledge and control of the world in ways that aff

Offers 609 articles by more than two hundred scholars covering the history of science from the Renaissance to the beginning of the twenty-first century.