The Making of Modern Science: Science, Technology, Medicine and Modernity: 1789 - 1914
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| Rating | : | 4.49 (690 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0745636764 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-07-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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His explanations of scientific issues go to the heart of the matter and are never weighed down with detail. With a few well-chosen words Knight can conjure up a Huxley or a Faraday, or explain the problems scientists faced in understanding the variety of human 'races'. Here he draws on a lifetime's study to explain how science - as a practical, intellectually challenging, and socially diverse activity - gained its cultural importance in the long nineteenth-century. It conveys the excitement of science and of its history."Social History of Medicine"Knigh
David Knight is Emeritus Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at Durham University.
The ideas, discoveries and inventions of scientists transformed the world: lives were longer and healthier, cities and empires grew, societies became urban rather than agrarian, the local became global. In revolutionary France the science student, taught by men active in research, was born; and a generation later, the graduate student doing a PhD emerged in Germany. Men of science rivalled clerics and critics as sages; they were honoured as national treasures, and buried in state funerals. Peripatetic congresses, great exhibitions, museums, technical colleges and laboratories blossomed; and new industries based on chemistry and electricity brought prosperity and power, economic and military. In 1833 the word ‘scientist’ was coined; forty years later science (increasingly specialised) was a becoming a profession. Eig