«A fabulous series of essays from more than a dozen science historians that show science interacting with and being influenced by culture and society. Morus and company succeed in showing science as a product of human culture, not a phenomenon apart from it.»

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«This book successfully shows for a general audience that science is culture and that "science"-singular-has never existed...chapeau for a beautiful andnuanced comprehensive history of science.»

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«This book is both conventional and not, sweeping yet focused, and really fun to read as both a reference source and as a piece of world history.»

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