Applied Science : Knowledge, Modernity, and Britain's Public Realm Hardback
by Robert (Science Museum, London) Bud
Part of the Science in History series
Hardback
Description
For almost two centuries, the category of 'applied science' was widely taken to be both real and important.
Then, its use faded. How could an entire category of science appear and disappear?
By taking a longue durée approach to British attitudes across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Robert Bud explores the scientific and cultural trends that led to such a dramatic rise and fall.
He traces the prospects and consequences that gave the term meaning, from its origins to its heyday as an elixir to cure many of the economic, cultural, and political ills of the UK, eventually overtaken by its competitor, 'technology'.
Bud examines how 'applied science' was shaped by educational and research institutions, sociotechnical imaginaries, and political ideologies and explores the extent to which non-scientific lay opinion, mediated by politicians and newspapers, could become a driver in the classification of science.
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:342 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:28/03/2024
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- ISBN:9781009365239
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:342 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:28/03/2024
- Category:
- ISBN:9781009365239
