Focusing on new disciplines in 19th-century German universities, this book reexamines certain critical junctures in the traditional historical picture of the role of the scientist in modern Western society.
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Focusing on new disciplines in 19th-century German universities, this book reexamines certain critical junctures in the traditional historical picture of the role of the scientist in modern Western society.
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Like New. Size: 8x6x1; Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Light wear. Stickers on front end page. Clean, unmarked pages. This book offers case studies that reexamine certain critical junctures in the traditional historical picture of the evolution of the role of the scientist in modern Western society. It focuses especially on the establishment of new disciplines within German research universities in the nineteenth century, the problematic relationship that emerged between science, industry, and the state at the turn of the twentieth century, and post-World War II developments in science and technology.
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Good-Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name-GOOD Standard-sized.
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Textual tables. Minor rubbing. VG., dustwrapper. 24x16cm, xiii, 353 pp. Contents: Practice, Reason, Context: The Dialogue Between Theory & Experiment; The Discipline of Nature and the Nature of Disciplines; Social Interests & the Organic Physics of 1847; Science for the Clinic: Science Policy & the Formation of Carl Ludwig's Institute in Leipzig; The Politics of Vision: Optics, Painting & Ideology in Germany, 1845-95; A Magic Bullet: Research for Profit & the Growth of Knowledge in Germany Around 1900; Practical Reason & the Construction of Knowledge: The Lifeworld of Haber-Bosch; Instrument Makers & Discipline Builders. The Case of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance.
