{"product_id":"horizons","title":"Horizons","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"A radical retelling... Poskett deftly blends the achievements of little-known figures into the wider history of science... The book brims with clarity.\"--\u003cem\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe history of science as it has never been told before: a tale of outsiders and unsung heroes from far beyond the Western canon that most of us are taught.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen we think about the origins of modern science we usually begin in Europe. We remember the great minds of Nicolaus Copernicus, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, and Albert Einstein. But the history of science is not, and has never been, a uniquely European endeavor. Copernicus relied on mathematical techniques that came from Arabic and Persian texts. Newton's laws of motion used astronomical observations made in Asia and Africa. When Darwin was writing \u003cem\u003eOn the Origin of Species, \u003c\/em\u003e he consulted a sixteenth-century Chinese encyclopedia. And when Einstein studied quantum mechanics, he was inspired by the Bengali physicist, Satyendra Nath Bose.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHorizons \u003c\/em\u003eis the history of science as it has never been told before, uncovering its unsung heroes and revealing that the most important scientific breakthroughs have come from the exchange of ideas from different cultures around the world. In this ambitious, revelatory history, James Poskett recasts the history of science, uncovering the vital contributions that scientists in Africa, America, Asia, and the Pacific have made to this global story.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mariner Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50375742816613,"sku":"9780358251798","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0852\/0538\/5573\/files\/imageloader_de6b1e76-0928-4753-8162-67ed364e8af8.jpg?v=1790871851","url":"https:\/\/paralleluniversebooks.com\/products\/horizons","provider":"Parallel Universe Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}