{"product_id":"the-making-of-modern-science-9780745636764","title":"The Making of Modern Science","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOf all the inventions of the nineteenth century, the scientist is one of the most striking. In revolutionary France the science student, taught by men active in research, was born; and a generation later, the graduate student doing a PhD emerged in Germany. In 1833 the word ''scientist'' was coined; forty years later science (increasingly specialised) was a becoming a profession. Men of science rivalled clerics and critics as sages; they were honoured as national treasures, and buried in state funerals. Their new ideas invigorated the life of the mind. Peripatetic congresses, great exhibitions, museums, technical colleges and laboratories blossomed; and new industries based on chemistry and electricity brought prosperity and power, economic and military. Eighteenth-century steam engines preceded understanding of the physics underlying them; but electric telegraphs and motors were applied science, based upon painstaking interpretation of nature. The ideas, discoveries and inventions of \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Knight loves science and he loves history. This work is a splendid example of how to communicate that enthusiasm.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eBritish Journal for the History of Science\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\"A fine synthesis, the fruit of a lifetime's study and reflection, which should prompt some readers to begin a lifetime study of their own.\"\u003cbr\u003e  \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eTimes Higher Education\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"A superb history of the discipline.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Diplomat\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"A magisterial survey. For anyone who has experienced the delight of hearing Knight deliver a public lecture, reading this will summon up his mellifluous voice as though he were standing in the same room.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eMetascience\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Replete with insight and astute synthesis. It conveys the excitement of science and of its history.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eSocial History of Medicine\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Knight ably discusses the various threads in this complex story, his description of the people and events which shaped the scientific developments are always interesting, and his interpretation of the philosophical and cultural changes are always insightful. Knight has a lot to offer any reader interested in how the profession established itself as one for skilled minds ... This book is well researched and well written and is to be recommended to anyone interested in how science and scientists emerged in the 20th century.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eChemistry World\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"The book is replete with insight and astute synthesis. It conveys the excitement of science and of its history.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eSocial History of Medicine\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"David Knight has long delighted his readers with books on the history of science that have been both instructive and entertaining. Here he draws on a lifetime's study to explain how science - as a practical, intellectually challenging, and socially diverse activity - gained its cultural importance in the long nineteenth-century. Warmly recommended.\"\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cb\u003eJohn Hedley Brooke, Andreas Idreos Professor Emeritus of Science \u0026amp; Religion, University of Oxford\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"David Knight's latest book is a glittering magnum opus in which he describes the professionalization of science by drawing on examples from various disciplines. The writing is erudite, lucid and upbeat. The book is a social history, an institutional history and an internal history all in one, and it is gratifying to see chemistry assuming a rather central position in the story.\"\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cb\u003eEric Scerri, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Periodic Table, Its Story and Its Significance\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This book is a pleasure to read: light in style, yet incisive, informative, and even profound. With a few well-chosen words Knight can conjure up a Huxley or a Faraday, or explain the problems scientists faced in understanding the variety of human 'races'. His explanations of scientific issues go to the heart of the matter and are never weighed down with detail. I can't think of a better or more rounded introduction to the history of nineteenth-century science.\"\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cb\u003eGeoffrey Cantor, University of Leeds\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations vi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface: The Age of Science viii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements xiii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Approaching the Past 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Science in and after 1789 12\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Science and its Languages 33\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Applied Science 56\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Intellectual Excitement 82\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Healthy Lives 105\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Laboratories 129\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Bodies, Minds and Spirits 151\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 The Time of Triumph 172\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Science and National Identities 195\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Method and Heresy 217\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Cultural Leadership 238\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Into the New Century 264\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTimeline 283\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes and References 289\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 353\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51767975706967,"sku":"9780745636764","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780745636764.jpg?v=1758715753","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-making-of-modern-science-9780745636764","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}