On Science (Thinking in Action)
Publisher: Routledge
Published: May 23, 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 225
ISBN-13: 9780415249805
First sentence: Four hundred years ago in Western Europe the business of understanding and controlling nature lay mainly in the hands of magicians - the astrologers, alchemists, Hermetic philosophers, Rosicrucians and the like - an upper-class example being Shakespeare's Prospero.