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Making Modern Science: A Historical Survey, by Peter J. Bowler and Iwan Rhys Morus. Chicago, May 2005. $25
The late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries provide a fascinating vantage point from which to survey the scientific developments that have led to our late-modern postindustrial society. This is a time marked not only by tremendous advances in science and technology, but also by increasing uncertainty about the means and ends of our efforts to better understand and manipulate the world in...