Title Civilization and the culture of science : science and the shaping of modernity, 1795-1935 / Stephen Gaukroger

Edition First edition Published Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2020

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Description 1 online resource Contents Introduction -- PART I: CIVILIZATION -- PART II: THE UNITY OF SCIENCE -- PART III: THE EXPANSION OF SCIENTIFIC UNDERSTANDING -- PART IV: THE PURSUIT OF SCIENCE BY OTHER MEANS: 'APPLIED' AND 'POPULAR' SCIENCE -- PART V: SCIENCE AND THE CIVILIZING PROCESS -- CONCLUSION -- Bibliography of Works Cited -- General Index Summary How did science come to have such a central place in Western culture? How did our ways of thinking, and our moral, political, and social values, come to be modelled around scientific values? Stephen Gaukroger traces the story of how these values developed, and how they influenced society and culture from the 19th to the mid-20th century Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 03, 2020) Subject Science -- History -- 19th century Science -- History -- 20th century Science and civilization. Science -- history Civilization -- history History, 19th Century History, 20th Century Science Science and civilization Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780192588920 0192588923 0192588931 9780191883347 0191883344 9780192588937

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