On Understanding Science
An Historical Approach
The language, customs, and manners of scientists are frequently unintelligible to the rest of the population, and there is considerable danger that the ideas and forces that are moving mountains will be increasingly inaccessible tothose outside the laboratories. The peril of such a situation to a democracy, where understanding must be assumed to be fairly general, is probably as great in the realm of ideas as the physical danger of the instruments of destruction. Dr. Conant sets out to show how the gulf can be bridged. Instead of a series of assertions about science being ordered knowledge, or the classification of facts, he presents a histor…
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- ISBN: 978-0-300-13655-5
- EAN: 9780300136555
- Produktnummer: 38202369
- Verlag: Yale University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1900
- Seitenangabe: 164 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D1.3 cm 318 g
- Gewicht: 318
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