Intellectual curiosity and the scientific revolution : a global perspective / Toby E. Huff.

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011.

xiii, 354 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Something new under the sun. Introduction ; Inventing the discovery machine ; The new telescopic evidence ; The "far seeing looking glass" goes to China ; The discovery machine goes to the Muslim world -- Patterns of education. Three ideals of higher education : Islamic, Chinese, and Western -- Science unbound. Infectious curiosity I : anatomy and microbiology ; Infectious curiosity II : weighing the air and atmospheric pressure ; Infectious curiosity III : magnetism and electricity ; Prelude to the grand synthesis ; The path to the grand synthesis ; The scientific revolution in comparative perspective ; Epilogue : science, literacy, and economic development.