New PDF release: Nature Engaged: Science in Practice from the Renaissance to

By M. Biagioli,J. Riskin

This quantity gathers essays that target the worldliness of technological know-how, its inseparable engagement within the significant institutional bases of social existence: legislation, marketplace, church, college, and state. With a chronological span achieving from the Renaissance to important technological know-how, its themes diversity from sundials to genetic sequences, from calculating tools to units that simulate human habit, from early cartography to recommendations for tracing radioactive fallout on a world scale. The publication goals to teach readers, with episodes drawn from the span in their smooth background, the sciences in motion all through human society.

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