Nature Engaged: Science in Practice from the Renaissance to the Present by Biagioli, M.

Nature Engaged: Science in Practice from the Renaissance to the Present (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780230102767)

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Nature Engaged: Science in Practice from the Renaissance to the Present by Biagioli, M.

Nature Engaged: Science in Practice from the Renaissance to the Present

$109.99
Nature Engaged: Science in Practice from the Renaissance to the Present by Biagioli, M.

Nature Engaged: Science in Practice from the Renaissance to the Present

$109.99
Format: Hardcover
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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.

Author: M. Biagioli
ISBN-10: 023010276X
ISBN-13: 9780230102767
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 11/28/2012
Pages: 301
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.00w x 0.90d

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Choice 09/01/2013
By M. Biagioli
By M. Biagioli
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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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