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Science on a Mission How Military Funding Shaped What We Do and Don't Know about the Ocean
ISBN: HB: 9780226732381, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
744 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 73 halftones, 17 line drawings
What difference does it make who pays for science? Some might say none. If scientists seek to discover fundamental truths about the world, and they do so in an objective manner using well-established methods, then how could it matter who's footing th...
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£32,00
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Earth on Show Fossils and the Poetics of Popular Science, 1802-1856
ISBN: PB: 9780226103204, ISBN: HB: 9780226616681, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
542 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 8 colour plates, 89 halftones, 2 tables
At the turn of the nineteenth century, geology – and its claims that the earth had a long and colorful prehuman history – was widely dismissed as dangerous nonsense. But just fifty years later, it was the most celebrated of Victorian sciences. Ralph...
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£47,50
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