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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Patricia Fara |
ISBN: | 9780199580279 0199580278 9780199226894 019922689X |
OCLC Number: | 699684885 |
Notes: | Originally published: 2009. - Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Awards: | Winner of Winner of the 2011 Dingle Prize, awarded by The British Society for the History of Science. |
Description: | XVIII, 482 Seiten : Illustrationen, Karten ; 20 cm |
Contents: | PART I: ORIGINS; PART II: INTERACTIONS; PART III: EXPERIMENTS; PART IV: INSTITUTIONS; PART V: LAWS; PART VI: INVISIBLES; PART VII |
Responsibility: | Patricia Fara. |
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a surprise and a subversive pleasure * Tim Radford, Guardian: Science Bookclub * Review from previous edition Fara's book could not be more wide-ranging, beginning [with] the quest to take the story of science as far back as she story of science as far back as she possibly can, and ending bang up to date. The content is ambitious. jusiciously and fairly handled...The narrative moves forward in an engaging way, while the enthusiasm and opinions of the author are never far from the surface. It is a book to provoke thought and argument. Animpressive achievement. * Jim Bennett, BBC History Magazine * Epic history of science * Jo Marchant, New Scientist * Wide-ranging and provocative...Romps through history at a terrific rate. * The Economist * An impressive and commendable effort to square the circle, to tell science's history, from the beginning. * Martin D. Gordin, Science * An engaging book...Fara is to be commended for stepping back - way back - to assess the history of science in its entirety * Robert J Malone, excutive director of the History of Science Society * Read more...

