In Making Modern Science, Peter J. Bowler and Iwan Rhys Morus explore both the history of science itself and its influence on modern thought, chronicling all major developments in scientific thinking, from the revolutionary ideas of the seventeenth century to the contemporary issues of evolution, genetics, nuclear physics, and modern cosmology. Written by seasoned historians, Making Modern Science will encourage readers to sec the history of science not as a series of names and dates but as an interconnected and complex web of relationships between science and modern society.
In Making Modern Science, Peter J. Bowler and Iwan Rhys Morus explore both the history of science itself and its influence on modern thought, chronicling all major developments in scientific thinking, from the revolutionary ideas of the seventeenth century to the contemporary issues of evolution, genetics, nuclear physics, and modern cosmology. Written by seasoned historians, Making Modern Science will encourage readers to sec the history of science not as a series of names and dates but as an interconnected and complex web of relationships between science and modern society.