Publisher | Johns Hopkins University Press; Second edition |
ISBN 13 | 9780801894213 |
ISBN 10 | 0801894212 |
Author | Steven Shapin |
Book Format | Paperback |
Language | English |
Book Description | Steven Shapin argues that science, for all its immense authority and power, is and always has been a human endeavor, subject to human capacities and limits. Put simply, science has never been pure. To be human is to err, and we understand science |
About the Author | Steven Shapin is the Franklin L. Ford Professor of the History of Science at Harvard, and his books include Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life (with Simon Schaffer), A Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century England, and The Scientific Revolution. He has written for the New Yorker and writes regularly for the London Review of Books. |
Publication Date | 2010-06-01 |
Number of Pages | 568 pages |