The Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science

Offers 609 articles by more than two hundred scholars covering the history of science from the Renaissance to the beginning of the twenty-first century.

This wonderful book is a combination of mathematics, its history, and the history of civilisation and culture (architecture, painting, measuring, astronomy, etc) . . . contains some fascinating historical description . . . A lot of effort is spent on increasing our understanding of geometry. the author carefully explains solutions of some geometrical methods and proofs. There are diagrams on nearly every page, illustrations from older books, photographs and eight colour plates.

Klappentext
The Companion presents, in alphabetical order, articles that link the histories of science with their applications in the wider society such as art, religion, law, literature, and other fields.

Zusammenfassung
The 'Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science' offers an overview of the field of science and its development over the past few generations, ranging from biographies on Galileo and Dorothy Hodgkin to the discussions chronicling the change of science from simply a tool of learning to a major force in society.

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