The Scientific Life
A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation
486 pages, 16 halftones, 2 line drawings 6 x 9
©
2008
Cloth $29.00
ISBN: 9780226750248
Published October 2008
Related links: Read an interview with the author. Listen to an audio interview.
Steven Shapin is the Franklin L. Ford Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University. He is the author of A Social History of Truth and The Scientific Revolution, and with Simon Schaffer, the coauthor of Leviathan and the Air-Pump. He has also written for the New Yorker and is a frequent contributor to the London Review of Books.
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