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Drawing on sources in a dozen languages and archives on five continents, Lewis Pyenson examines how the practitioners of the "exact," as opposed to "descriptive," sciences performed in relative isolation--how, in one sense, science was driven by its own imperatives.Pyenson, Lewis is the author of 'Civilizing Mission: Exact Sciences and French Overseas Expansion, 1830-1940 - Lewis Pyenson - Hardcover' with ISBN 9780801844218 and ISBN 0801844215.
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