Servants of Nature: A History of Scientific Institutions, Enterprises and Sensibilities
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‘Highly readable, subtle and thought-provoking scientific history’ ScotsmanIn this penetrating work, Pyenson and Pyenson identify that major advances in science stem from changes in three distinct areas of society: the social institutions that promote science, the sensibilities of scientists themselves and the goal of the scientific enterprise. Servants of Nature begins by examining the institutions that have shaped science: the academies of Ancient Greece, universities, the growth of museums of science, technology and natural history, botanical and zoological gardens, and the advent of modern specialized research laboratories. It is equally comprehensive when it analyses changing scientific sensibilities – for example, the relationship between religion and science, or the interplay between the growth of democracy and the growth of scientific knowledge.The final section of this book is on the changing nature of the scientific enterprise and considers how the goals of science have evolved. It is an indispensable account of how science, perhaps above all other human endeavours, has shaped, and been shaped by, the world we inhabit today.
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Lewis Pyenson. Servants of Nature: A History of Scientific Institutions, Enterprises and Sensibilities
SERVANTS OF NATURE. A History of Scientific Institutions, Enterprises and Sensibilities. LEWIS PYENSON. and. SUSAN SHEETS-PYENSON
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CONTENTS
PREFACE
Introduction: Science and Its Past
1 Teaching: Before the Scientific Revolution
2 Teaching: From the Time of the Scientific Revolution
3 Sharing: Early Scientific Societies
4 Watching: Observatories in the Middle East, China, Europe and America
5 Showing: Museums
6 Growing: Botanical Gardens and Zoos
7 Measuring: The Search for Precision
8 Reading: Books and the Spread of Ideas
9 Travelling: Discovery, Maps and Scientific Exploration
10 Counting: Statistics
11 Killing: Science and the Military
12 Participating: Beyond Scientific Societies
13 Appropriating: Science in Nations Beyond Europe
14 Believing: Science and Religion
15 Knowing: Progressing and Proclaiming
16 Knowing: Relativizing
FURTHER READING. INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1
CHAPTER 2
CHAPTER 3
CHAPTER 4
CHAPTER 5
CHAPTER 6
CHAPTER 7
CHAPTER 8
CHAPTER 9
CHAPTER 10
CHAPTER 11
CHAPTER 12
CHAPTER 13
CHAPTER 14
CHAPTER 15
CHAPTER 16
INDEX
ABOUT THE AUTHOR. SERVANTS OF NATURE
NOTES
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1
CHAPTER 2
CHAPTER 3
CHAPTER 5
CHAPTER 6
CHAPTER 7
CHAPTER 8
CHAPTER 9
CHAPTER 10
CHAPTER 11
CHAPTER 12
CHAPTER 13
CHAPTER 14
CHAPTER 15
CHAPTER 16
THE FONTANA HISTORY OF SCIENCE SERIES
ABOUT THE PUBLISHER
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‘A considerable achievement.’ CASPAR HENDERSON, New Scientist
‘At best a heroic visionary, at worst a megalomaniac Frankenstein: either way triumphant individualism is taken for granted in the stereotypical scientist. So too is the disinterested purity of research conducted under lab conditions, all external considerations excluded like so many bacteria from a sterile vessel. Yet the reality has always been quite otherwise: the world refuses to stop at the laboratory door, and that has led to some of science’s greatest breakthroughs as well as its worst abuses. This highly readable, subtle and thought-provoking scientific history goes beyond whistle-blowing to consider more subtle and ultimately perhaps more interesting questions of how a changing institutional context has constrained the content and direction of we too unquestioningly take to be ‘pure’ science.’
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