Instrumental in war
Subtitle: science, research, and instruments : between knowledge and the world
By: edited by Steven A. Walton.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Leiden
Language: eng
Number of pages: 414
Description: "Scientific research and instrumentation are crucial for military action today but they have not always been so. This collection investigates 500 years of the relationship between warfare, research, and instruments - both physical and intellectual - to understand this interaction. With U.S., English and French examples, contributors provide examples from army and naval history to show how governments and individuals made warfare scientific, developing instruments, stations, and organizations that furthered the cause. Some developments directly aided war efforts; others were parts of 'normal science' in peacetime; and others were relatively ineffective in directly bringing about military change.

These developmental histories shed light on the origins of modern scientific warfare."--Jacket.