num_pages: 328
description: Written by more than 100 prominent scholars, The Oxford Illustrated Companion to the History of Modern History presents an unparalleled history of the field. This lavishly illustrated overview is invaluable to anyone with an interest in the technology, ideas, discoveries, and learned institutions that have shaped our world over the past five centuries. Focusing on the period from the Renaissance to the early twenty-first century, the articles cover all disciplines, historical periods, concepts, and philosophies. Coverage is international, tracing the spread of scince fropm its traditional centers and explaining how the prevailing knowledge of non-Western societies has modified or contributed to the dominant global science as it is currently understood.
language: English
title: The Oxford Illustrated Companion to the History of Modern Science
publisher: Black Dog Publishing