The Cambridge History of Science: Volume 6, The Modern Biological and Earth Sciences: Modern Biological and Earth Sciences v. 6: 06 - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521572010 ISBN 13: 9780521572019

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2009

Synopsis

A comprehensive and authoritative guide to developments in life and earth sciences since 1800.

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About the Authors

Peter J. Bowler is Professor of the History of Science at Queen's University in Belfast. He was president of the British Society for the History of Science from 2004 to 2006, is a member of the Royal Irish Academy, and is a Fellow of the British Academy and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is the author of numerous books, including Charles Darwin: The Man and His Influence, published by Cambridge University Press in 1996 and Reconciling Science and Religion: The Debate in Early Twentieth-Century Britain (University of Chicago Press, 2001).

John V. Pickstone is Wellcome Research Professor at Manchester University, where he founded the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine and directed it until 2002. His numerous books and articles include Ways of Knowing. A New History of Science, Technology and Medicine (Manchester University Press, 2000, and Chicago University Press, 2001) and Surgeons, Manufacturers and Patients: A Transatlantic History of the Total Hip Replacement, co-authored with Julie Anderson and Francis Neary (Palgrave, 2007).

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521572010
• ISBN 13: 9780521572019
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 688
• Editor: Bowler Peter J., Pickstone John V.