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Intellectual Curiosity and the Scientific Revolution: A Global Perspective, published in 2010 by Cambridge University Press, examines why the scientific developments of 17th century Europe emerged in the West and why a similar transformation did not occur in China or the Islamic world during the same period. Huff centers his explanation on the concept of “intellectual curiosity” and explores how social institutional and cultural structures shaped scientific progress. Subject The work argues that