Applied Science: Knowledge, Modernity, and Britain's Public Realm (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781009365239)

For almost two centuries, the category of 'applied science' was widely taken to be both real and important. Then, its use faded. How could an entire category of science appear and disappear? By taking a longue dur馥 approach to British attitudes across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Robert Bud explores the scientific and cultural trends that led to such a dramatic rise and fall. He traces the prospects and consequences that gave the term meaning, from its origins to its heyday as an elixir to cure many of the economic, cultural, and political ills of the UK, eventually overtaken by its competitor, 'technology'. Bud examines how 'applied science' was shaped by educational and research institutions, sociotechnical imaginaries, and political ideologies and explores the extent to which non-scientific lay opinion, mediated by politicians and newspapers, could become a driver in the classification of science.

Author: Robert Bud
ISBN-10: 1009365231
ISBN-13: 9781009365239
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 03/28/2024
Pages: 342
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.38lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81d