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THE FORCE OF KNOWLEDGE: THE SCIENTIFIC DIMENSION OF SOCIETY

by John Ziman

Published by Cambridge University Press. 1st. 1976

Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper. Painting a broad picture of modern science, and of its relations to the world in general. Brown boards, red title block with gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. ix and 374 pages including index.

Spine slightly cocked. Ink stamp for the Institute of Physics to half-title page. Page edge browning. Contents otherwise clean. Price-cut pictorial wrapper is faded to top front edge and spine and is edge-worn.

ISBN: 0521206499
Stock no. 1808009

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Contents

  • 1. Science as a social institution
  • 2. Which came first: science or technology?
  • 3. Who was a scientist?
  • 4. Styles of research
  • 5. Scientific communication
  • 6. Authority and Influence
  • 7. From craft to science
  • 8. Invention, research and industrial innovation
  • 9. Big science
  • 10. Paying for science
  • 11. Science as a cultural import
  • 12. The sciences of society
  • 13. Science and war
  • 14. Science and social need

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