{"id":96,"date":"2002-12-01T23:26:47","date_gmt":"2002-12-02T04:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=96"},"modified":"2002-12-01T23:26:47","modified_gmt":"2002-12-02T04:26:47","slug":"western-science-writers-discover-non-western-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=96","title":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2002\/12\/01\/books\/review\/01HALLLT.html?pagewanted=1\">Western science writers discover non-western science<\/a>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sociate.com\">Jerry<\/a> for the link, and to Swamy for some education on the subject.<br \/>\nIt is pretty amazing how often American and European books on the <a href=\"http:\/\/levin.blogspot.com\/2002_09_01_levin_archive.html#85415563\">history of science and technology<\/a> contain obvious errors of fact when they discuss the &#8220;discovery&#8221; and &#8220;invention&#8221; of various ideas and techniques.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Jerry for the link, and to Swamy for some education on the subject. It is pretty amazing how often American and European books on the history of science and technology contain obvious errors of fact when they discuss the &#8220;discovery&#8221; and &#8220;invention&#8221; of various ideas and techniques.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prDRq-1y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}