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Title: Servants of Nature
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
Publication Date: 1999
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0393046141
ISBN 13: 9780393046144
Binding: HARDCOVER
Edition: First Edition.
Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Weight: 35 ounces

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A exploration that ranges from antiquity to modern times explores the interaction between scientific practice and public life and reveals how advances in science have almost always been closely allied with changes in three distinct areas of society.

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Lewis Pyenson is professor of history and mathematics at the University of Southwestern Louisiana, where the late Susan Sheets-Pyenson was professor of history. Lewis Pyenson is the author of the landmark trilogy about science and imperialism: Civilizing Mission, Empire of Reason, and Cultural Imperialism and Exact Sciences. Susan Sheets-Pyenson is the author of Cathedrals of Science.

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