Now in its second edition, this bestselling textbook may be the single most influential study of the historical relationship between science and technology ever... » 

Now in its second edition, this bestselling textbook may be the single most influential study of the historical relationship between science and technology ever published. McClellan and Dorn identify two great scientific traditions: the useful sciences, patronized by the state from the dawn of civilization, and scientific theorizing,initiated by the ancient Greeks. They find that scientific traditions took root in China, India, and Central and South America, as well as in a series of Near Eastern empires, during late antiquity and the Middle Ages. «