Knowledge and Power
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Knowledge and Power: Science in World History
By William BurnsWhile the early Jesuits of Ricci's generation had used science only as one of several means to reach the Chinese elite, science lay at the heart of the French Jesuit mission. The French Jesuits arrived in China as part of the effort by ...
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Knowledge and Power: Science in World History
By William E. BurnsThe title of this book comes from a famous saying by the English Renaissance philosopher Francis Bacon: "Knowledge Is Power.
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Knowledge and Power: Science in World History
By William E. BurnsKnowledge and Power traces the development of science through different historical settings from the Middle Ages through to the Cold War. It is Ideal for students of world history and the history of science.
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Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing our World
By George Gilder" In Knowledge and Power, George Gilder proposes a bold new theory on how capitalism produces wealth and how our economy can regain its vitality and its growth.
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Knowledge and Power: Science in World History
By William BurnsThomas Bass's Camping with the Prince and Other Tales of Science in Africa (1990) collects fascinating stories of encounters with scientists and scientific institutions in independent Africa in a very readable fashion.
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Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing our World
By George Gilder" In Knowledge and Power, George Gilder proposes a bold new theory on how capitalism produces wealth and how our economy can regain its vitality and its growth.
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Knowledge and Power: Science in World History
By William E. BurnsFive case studies are examined within this book: the creation of modern science by Muslims, Christians and Jews in the medieval Mediterranean; the global science of the Jesuit order in the early modern world; the relationship between ...