Toward a global science : mining civilizational knowledge / Susantha Goonatilake.

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [1998], ©1998.

xii, 314 pages ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographic references (p. [259]-300) and index

Viewing science without Eurocentric blinkers -- The trajectories of civilizational knowledge -- The background to crossflows: Where the East and the West did met -- Transformations -- Examples of mining for contemporary science -- Indigenous knowledge -- Medicine: Ayurveda -- Mathematics -- A search for new psychologies -- More imaginative explorations -- Traversing future technologies through some past concepts -- Virtual reality -- Digging deeper: Exploiting philososphy for science -- Toward a new millennium.