Science and Culture Throughout History
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2023
Pages: 308
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SCIENCE AND CULTURE THROUGHOUT HISTORY explores science and culture and how their symbiotic relationship affected the world around us. The text directs students through science’s evolution, starting with early cultures and ending with scientific achievements in the modern world.
Each chapter includes biographical spotlights on noteworthy figures, Did you Know? boxes with facts about scientific events or people, and timelines to provide the students with historical context.
Chapter 1 Early Culture and Science Connections
Chapter 2 Eastern, Medieval, and Renaissance Science
Chapter 3 Revolutions in Science
Chapter 4 From Magic to Newton
Chapter 5 The Enlightenment
Chapter 6 Romanticism and Charles Darwin
Chapter 7 Twentieth-Century Medicine and Physics
Chapter 8 War and Space in the 20th Century
Chapter 9 Science Today and Into the Future
Chapter 10 The Public, Gender, Religion, and Science
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