The making of modern science : science, technology, medicine and modernity : 1789-1914 / David Knight.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Knight, David M.
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity, 2009.
Subjects:
Science > History > 19th century.
Medicine > History > 19th century.
Physical Description:xii, 370 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction: Approaching the past
  • Science in and after 1789
  • Science and its languages
  • Applied science
  • Intellectual excitement
  • Healthy lives
  • Laboratories
  • Bodies, minds and spirits
  • The time of triumph
  • Science and national identities
  • Method and heresy
  • Cultural leadership
  • Into the new century.