A History of Science in World Cultures Voices of Knowledge

"Scholarly yet accessible, rich in detail yet thematically clear, ambitious yet balanced in scope."

Richard Beyler, Portland State University, USA

"For the past twenty years, Scott Montgomery has been in the forefront of studying the role that translation has played in the history of science. This book is a culmination of that work. In a bold inversion of how general histories of science are normally written, Montgomery and Kumar show how eight world cultures - each with its own knowledge-producing traditions - fed into what we now recognize as the 'Scientific Revolution' of 17^th-century Europe. Readers will be impressed by just how much of that history can be told simply by following the movement of people and ideas across lands and languages. The result is an account of 'science as civilization' that is a worthy successor to the project first laid down a century ago by the founder of the history of science field, George Sarton."

Steve Fuller, University of Warwick, UK