Servants of nature
Subtitle: a history of scientific institutions, enterprises, and sensibilities
By: Lewis Pyenson and Susan Sheets-Pyenson.
Contributors: Sheets-Pyenson, Susan, 1949-
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: W.W. Norton
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 496
Subjects: Science -- Societies, etc. -- History; Science -- Social aspects -- History; Science -- Study and teaching -- History
Description: Servants of Nature explores the interaction between scientific practice and public life from antiquity to the present. Drs Lewis Pyenson and Susan Sheets-Pyenson show how, in Asia, Europe and the New World, scientific expression has been allied closely with changes in three distinct areas of society: the institutions that sustain science; the moral, religious, political and philosophical sensibilities of scientists themselves; and the goal of the scientific enterprise.

Following the establishment of institutions of higher learning, scientific societies and museums, the authors trace how the bodies that determine scientific tradition and guide innovation have acquired their authority. They also consider how scientific goals have changed and they examine the relationship between scientists, militarists and industrialists in modern times.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [453]-477) and index.