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Steven Shapin

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

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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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