| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 243 pages) |
| Series |
Science, technology and culture, 1700-1945 |
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Science, technology, and culture, 1700-1945.
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| Contents |
1. Introduction / Harmke Kamminga and Geert Somsen -- 2. Meanings of scientific unity : the law, the orchestra, the pyramic, the quilt and the ring / Peter Galison -- 3. The unifying vision : Julian Huxley, evolutionary humanism and the evolutionary synthesis / Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis -- 4. Unity through experiment? Reductionism, rhetoric and the politics of nuclear science, 1918-40 / Jeff Hughes -- 5. Scientists of the world unite : socialist internationalism and the unity of science / Geert Somsen -- 6. Government as scientific process in H.G. Wells's world state / Rein de Wilde and Geert Somsen -- 7. Unifying science against fascism : neurophychiatry and medical education in the Spanish Civil War / Fernando Salmón and Rafael Huertas -- 8. 'To formulate a plan for better living' : visual communication and scientific planning in Paul Rotha's documentary films, 1935-45 / Timothy Boon -- 9. Unifying science and human culture : the promotion of the history of science by George Sarton and Frans Verdoorn / Bert Theunissen -- 10. The unity of knowledge and the diversity of knowers : science as an agent of cultural integration in the United States between the two world wars / David A. Hollinger -- 11. McCarthyism in philosophy and the end of the unity of science ideology / George Reisch |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Vendor-supplied metadata |
| Subject |
Science -- Philosophy.
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Science and the humanities.
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Interdisciplinary approach to knowledge.
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Science -- Europe -- History
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Science -- United States -- History
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Logical positivism.
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SCIENCE -- History.
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Interdisciplinary approach to knowledge
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Logical positivism
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Science
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Science and the humanities
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Science -- Philosophy
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Europe
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Kamminga, Harmke, editor
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Somsen, Geert, editor
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| ISBN |
9781472476098 |
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1472476093 |
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0754640353 |
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9780754640356 |
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9781317073062 |
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1317073061 |
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9781317073055 |
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1317073053 |
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1315603098 |
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9781315603094 |
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