Civilization and the Culture of Science

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Civilization and the Culture of Science is written by Stephen Gaukroger and published by . It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0198849079 (ISBN 10) and 9780198849070 (ISBN 13).

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.