Servants of Nature: A History of Scientific, Institutions, Enterprises & Sensibilities

Explores the interaction between scientific practice and public life from antiquity to the present. Shows how, in Asia, Europe, and the New World, scientific expression has been allied closely with changes in three distinct areas of society: the institutions that sustain science; the moral, religious, political, and philosophical sensibilities of scientists themselves; and the goal of the scientific enterprise. Following the establishment of institutions of higher learning, scientific societies, and museums, the authors trace how the bodies that determine scientific tradition and guide innovation have acquired their authority. Examines the relationship between scientists, militarists, and industrialists in modern times. Illus.Pyenson, Lewis is the author of 'Servants of Nature: A History of Scientific, Institutions, Enterprises & Sensibilities', published 1999 under ISBN 9780756767778 and ISBN 0756767776.