SUMMARY

Chapter 1: Time and Place (1001 Years, ca. 750–1750) opens with the subject of history and the message that historical knowledge involves understanding history as a combination of various historical players, from sources and figures to developments and outcomes; history as a combined entity which is, significantly, unique as something neither reducible to expected or repeatable cases, nor extendable to all times and places. Key players in this thousand- year story of science are identified in this chapter as ‘roots’ for foundations, followed in the next chapters by ‘routes’ for transmissions, ‘rules’ for directions, ‘books’ for conceptions, ‘schools’ for instructions, ‘tools’ for manipulations, and ‘loops’ for communications.