Defining Science
Subtitle: William Whewell, Natural Knowledge and Public Debate in Early Victorian Britain (Ideas in Context)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: September 18, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780521541169
Subjects: History of ideas, intellectual history; History of science; c 1800 to c 1900; Politics - Current Events; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; British Isles; History; History & Theory - General; Political Science / History & Theory; Science--Great Britain--History--19th century
First sentence: In the early Victorian period there was a wide-ranging set of debates on the nature of science.