Companion to the History of Modern Science

This invaluable resource is the first one-volume, in-depth, comprehensive history of modern science ever published. Incorporating both theory and practice, it is a descriptive and analytical guide to the development of Western science from AD 1500, and to the diversity and course of that development first in Europe and later across the world. The contributors, specialists from all parts of the world, present their chapters in clear, non-technical language.