A exploration that ranges from antiquity to modern times explores the interaction between scientific practice and public life and reveals how advances in science have almost always been closely allied with changes in three distinct areas of society.

Servants of Nature: A History of Scientific Institutions, Enterprises, and Sensibilities

Biographies & Memoirs

Pyenson, Lewis

Sheets-Pyenson, Susan

Professionals & Academics

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

A penetrating account of how science has shaped--and been shaped by--society. Servants of Nature explores the fascinating interaction between scientific practice and public life from antiquity to the present. The authors reveal how, in Asia, Europe, and the New World, advances in science have been closely allied to changes in three distinct areas of society: the institutions that sustain science; the moral, religious, political, and philosophical sensibilities of scientists themselves; and the goal of the scientific enterprise. Tracing the establishment of institutions of higher learning, scientific societies and museums, the authors examine how the bodies that shape scientific tradition and guide innovation have acquired their authority. They proceed to consider how scientific goals have changed, as they analyze the relationship between scientists, militarists, and industrialists in modern times. Servants of Nature is "a wide-ranging and informative introduction to how science and technology became the dominant feature of modern society" (American Scientist).

Servants of Nature: A History of Scientific Institutions, Enterprises, and Sensibilities (Norton History of Science)

Science & Math

History & Philosophy

W.W.Norton&Company

A detailed account of Einstein's childhood and formative years focuses on the intellectual climate of Germany where, before 1919, his trailblazing work on the special and general theories of relativity received widest notice. The author explores the response to the theories by pure mathematicians, who did not have to face the prospect of a fundamental revision of their basic principles, and by physicists and astronomers, who did. Of interest to physicists, academics and students interested in Einstein himself and in the wider history of science and ideas, or in the social and intellectual history of Germany.

The Young Einstein, The Advent of Relativity

History

CRC-Press

xi 136p paperback, yellow card cover, black lettering to front and spine, pages and cover bright, an excellent copy, seems barely used

Neohumanism and the persistence of pure mathematics in Wilhelmian Germany (Memoirs / American Philosophical Society)

American Philosophical Society

George Sarton animated the discipline of history of science (HoS) in America. This vol. traces his youth &amp; educ. in Belgium, &amp; his marriage to Mabel Elwes. It follows the Sarton s in their path from idealistic refugees fleeing the invasion of Belgium in 1914 to destitute intellectuals at Harvard Univ. For 50 years, HoS as an acad. specialty owed much to Sarton's visions &amp; anxieties, esp. as they were expressed in his marriage. Mabel Sarton sustained his enterprise &amp; contributed to its form, which included parts of socialism, pacifism, aesthetics, &amp; faith. Themes present in Sarton's early work include the common endeavor of artists &amp; scientists, the private nature of scientific innovation, &amp; the HoS as a bridge between the humanities &amp; the natural sciences. Illus.

Passion of George Sarton: A Modern Marriage and its Discipline, Memoirs, American Philosophical Society (vol. 260) (Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society)

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