Intellectual Curiosity and the Scientific Revolution: A Global Perspective

This study, beginning with the Dutch-invented telescope of 1608 and then Galileo's discoveries, casts the European advancements in modern science, technology, and economic development into a global framework.

Toby E. Huff is a research associate at Harvard University in the Department of Astronomy and Chancellor Professor Emeritus in Policy Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. He has lectured in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East and has lived in Malaysia. He is the author of The Rise of Early Modern Science: Islam, China, and the West, second edition (Cambridge University Press, 2003); coeditor with Wolfgang Schluchter of Max Weber and Islam (1999), and author of An Age of Science and Revolutions, 1600-1800 (2005).