THE FORCE OF KNOWLEDGE: THE SCIENTIFIC DIMENSION OF SOCIETY
Written by John Ziman
Published by Cambridge University Press
in 1976
ISBN: 0521206499
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THE FORCE OF KNOWLEDGE: THE SCIENTIFIC DIMENSION OF SOCIETY
Written by John Ziman.
Stock no. 1808009
1st.
1976.
Hardback.
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. ISBN: 0521206499. 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.
Front cover
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