books.google.com.au - Seventeenth-century Europe witnessed an extraordinary flowering of discoveries and innovations. This study, beginning with the Dutch-invented telescope of 1608, casts Galileo's discoveries into a global framework. Although the telescope was soon transmitted to China, Mughal India, and the Ottoman Empire,...http://books.google.com.au/books/about/Intellectual_Curiosity_and_the_Scientifi.html?id=xNSPo_Xda_0C&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareIntellectual Curiosity and the Scientific Revolution
