Empires and exact sciences in pre-modern Eurasia

Plofker, K. (2007)

Article / Letter to editor

Pre-modern Asia's diverse intellectual traditions shared a scientific enterprise in the development of mathematical astronomy and astrology. Inspired by the prospect of foretelling the future, and by the mathematical beauty of heavenly motions, scholars in the dominant cultures of Asia and Europe constructed a remarkably complex system of calculation, observation and prediction that became the springboard for modern physical science.

• History
• Philosophy
• Knowledge

• All authors: Plofker, K.
• Date: 2007
• Publisher: IIAS, Leiden