Hidden Histories of Science
Robert B. Silvers
193 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 1862070059
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Language: English
Publish: 852105600000
These five essays show that science is, in the words of Oliver Sacks, “a human enterprise through and through, an organic, evolving, human growth, with sudden spurts and arrests, and strange deviations, too. It grows out of its past, but never outgrows it, any more than we outgrow our childhood.”