Screen LibraryScience：a four thousand year history
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Oxford University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Oxford New York |
| Publication Dates: | 2009. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | xv, 408 p.: ill., maps ; 25 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780199226894 (cloth) 019922689X |
| Index Number: | N09 |
| CLC: | N09 |
| Call Number: | N09/F219 |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [375]-390) and index. Origins : Sevens ; Babylon ; Heroes ; Cosmos ; Life ; Matter ; Technology -- Interactions : Eurocentrism ; China ; Islam ; Scholarship ; Europe ; Aristotle ; Alchemy -- Experiments : Exploration ; Magic ; Astronomy ; Bodies ; Machines ; Instruments ; Gravity -- Institutions : Societies ; Systems ; Careers ; Industries ; Revolutions ; Rationality ; Disciplines -- Laws : Progress ; Globalization ; Objectivity ; God ; Evolution ; Power ; Time -- Invisibles : Life ; Germs ; Rays ; Particles ; Genes ; Chemicals ; Uncertainties -- Decisions : Warfare ; Heredity ; Cosmology ; Information ; Rivalry In this book the author rewrites science's past to provide new ways of understanding and questioning our modern technological society. Aiming not just to provide information but to make people think, it explores how science has become so powerful by describing the financial interests and imperial ambitions behind its success. Sweeping through the centuries from ancient Babylon right up to the latest hi-tech experiments in genetics and particle physics, the book also ranges internationally, challenging notions of European superiority by emphasising the importance of scientific projects based |