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David Knight

The Making of Modern Science

Science, Technology, Medicine and Modernity: 1789 - 1914

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Of all the inventions of the nineteenth century, the scientist is one of the most striking. In revolutionary France the science student, taught by men active in research, was born; and a generation later, the graduate student doing a PhD emerged in Germany. In 1833 the word 'scientist' was coined; forty years later science (increasingly specialised) was a becoming a profession. Men of science rivalled clerics and critics as sages; they were honoured as national treasures, and buried in state funerals. Their new ideas invigorated the life of the mind. Peripatetic congresses, great exhibitions, museums, technical colleges and laboratories bloss… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-7456-7490-2
  • EAN: 9780745674902
  • Produktnummer: 16366720
  • Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
  • Seitenangabe: 384 S.
  • Plattform: PDF
  • Masse: 4'330 KB
  • Auflage: 1. Auflage

Über den Autor


David Knight is Emeritus Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at Durham University.

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