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Nature Engaged: Science in Practice from the Renaissance to the Present (Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History) - Hardcover

Book 26 of 44: Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History
 
9780230102767: Nature Engaged: Science in Practice from the Renaissance to the Present (Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 023010276X ISBN 13: 9780230102767
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012

Synopsis

This volume gathers essays that focus on the worldliness of science, its inseparable engagement in the major institutional bases of social life: law, market, church, school, and nation. With a chronological span reaching from the Renaissance to Big Science, its topics range from sundials to genetic sequences, from calculating instruments to devices that simulate human behavior, from early cartography to techniques for tracing radioactive fallout on a global scale. The book aims to show readers, with episodes drawn from the span of their modern history, the sciences in action throughout human society.

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About the Author

MARIO BIAGIOLO is Distinguished Professor of STS, Law, and History at the University of California at Davis, USA.
JESSICA RISKIN is an Associate Professor of History at Stanford University, USA.

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date
2012
Language
English
ISBN 10 
023010276X
ISBN 13 
9780230102767
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
312
Editor
Biagioli M., Riskin J.