The Scientific Enterprise in America
Subtitle: Readings from Isis
Contributors: Ronald L. Numbers (Editor); Charles E. Rosenberg (Editor)
Publisher: University of Chicago Press Journals
Published: April 2, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9780226608372
Subjects: History Of Science; Science; Science/Mathematics; USA; History; Science / History; 19th century; 20th century; Forecasting; United States
First sentence: TWENTY YEARS AGO, the place of science in American society did not really constitute a problem for historians; within the larger discipline of history it attracted only a handful of devotees-most of them practitioners of a still unfashionable social or institutional history.