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Employing intellectual history, philosophy, and social studies, Sean Johnston offers a unique appraisal of the history of science and the nature of the evolving discipline. Science is all-encompassing and contentious. Based on its past, where might it lead in the twenty-first century? Sean F. Johnston is a reader in the History of Science and Technology at the University of Glasgow.
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Sean F. Johnston is Reader in the History of Science and Technology at the University of Glasgow. He is also a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy with a prior career as a physicist and systems engineer.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A great introduction to the history of science: the book sometimes veers from a purely chronological account to investigate issues such as women in science, the history of the history of science itself and how science fits in a cultural and philosophical framework.