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

By Lewis Pyenson, Susan Sheets-Pyenson
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By Lewis Pyenson, Susan Sheets-Pyenson
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"Servants of Nature explores the interaction between scientific practice and public life from antiquity to the present. Drs. Lewis Pyenson and Susan Sheets-Pyenson show how, in Asia, Europe and the New World, scientific expression has been allied closely with 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." A penetrating acco...

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