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Summary
Summary
* 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 later across the world
* Presented in clear, non-technical language
* Extensive indexes of Subjects and Names
`Indeed a companion volume whose 67 essays give pleasure and instruction ... an ambitious and successful work.' - Times Literary Supplement
`This work is an essential resource for libraries everywhere. For specialist science libraries willing to keep just one encyclopaedic guide to history, for undergraduate libraries seeking to provide easily accessible information, for the devisers of university curricula, for the modern social historian or even the eclectic scientist taking a break from simply making history, this is the book for you.' - Times Higher Education Supplement
`A pleasure to read with a carefully chosen typeface, well organized pages and ample margins ... it is very easy to find one's way around. This is a book which will be consulted widely.' - Technovation
`This is a commendably easy book to use.' - British Journal of the History of Science
`Scholars from other areas entering this field, students taking the vertical approach and teachers coming from any direction cannot fail to find this an invaluable text.' - History of Science Journal
Author Notes
Robert Olby, Geoffrey Cantor, John Christie, and Jonathon Hodge are all in the Division of the History of Science at the University of Leeds.
Reviews 1
Choice Review
This Companion numbering more than 1,000 pages is not to be taken lightly! It is a fascinating and informative collection of 67 chapters (from 10 to 20 pages each) by 61 different authors, many deservedly well known scholars. Given the diversity of topics now germane to the history of modern science ("modern" here means since 1500 and "science" excludes technology and medicine), the "companion" approach is admirable. The work is not an encyclopedia nor a biographical dictionary, nor is it a massive, coherent one-volume text. Specialists will enjoy browsing, especially in areas outside their own. Newcomers, whether students or general readers, will find provocative and stimulating insights into today's practice in the history of science, but they will need to make intelligent use of the editors' introduction, the table of contents, and the internal cross-references. Indexes to names and subjects are adequate but not always complete. Understandably, there is no general bibliography, but each chapter includes suggestions for further reading and most have notes as well. Birth and death dates are given for many, but not all, named individuals and, unfortunately some proper names are misspelled. Lower-divison undergraduates and up. -E. R. Webster, emerita, Wellesley College
