The uncharted territories of scientific history

Photo caption: Aztec botany – The Aztec city of Tenochtitlan featured botanical gardens a century before European examples, but now only ruins remain in the centre of Mexico City. Photo courtesy of Shutterstock / WitR. Anita Chandran reviews “Horizons: a Global History of Science” by James Poskett. Physics World –  November 7, 2022.

“Modern science – we are told – is a product of Europe alone,” begins James Poskett in his new book Horizons: a Global History of Science. “This story is a myth.” Across cultures and disciplines, how history has been recorded and taught is being reassessed. Bids to rename buildings, replace statues and repatriate artefacts looted by European Empires are gaining ever more traction. Yet science has lagged […]

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