This book challenges the common assumption that the predominant
focus of the history of science should be the achievements of
Western scientists since the so-called Scientific Revolution. The
conceptual frameworks within which the members of earlier societies
and of modern indigenous groups worked admittedly pose severe
problems for our understanding. But rather than dismiss them on the
grounds that they are incommensurable with our own and to that
extent unintelligible, we should see them as offering opportunities
for us to revise many of our own preconceptions. We should accept
that the realities to be accounted for are multi-dimensional and
that all such accounts are to some extent value-laden. In the
process insights from current anthropology and the study of ancient
Greece and China especially are brought to bear to suggest how the
remit of the history of science can be expanded to achieve a
cross-cultural perspective on the problems.
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