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The Modern Physical and Mathematical Sciences

Series The Cambridge History of Science, Volume
5

Edited by Mary Jo
Nye

Publication Date 2002

Hardback ISBN-10 0521571995

Hardback ISBN-13 9780521571999

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
10.1017/CHOL9780521571999

Overview

A narrative and interpretative history of the physical and mathematical
sciences from the early nineteenth century to the close of the twentieth
century. Drawing upon the most recent methods and results in historical studies
of science, the authors of over thirty chapters employ strategies from
intellectual history, social history, and cultural studies to provide unusually
wide-ranging and comprehensive insights into developments in the public culture,
disciplinary organization, and cognitive content of the physical and
mathematical sciences. The sciences under study in the volume include physics,
astronomy, chemistry and mathematics, as well as their extensions into
geosciences and environmental sciences, computer science, and biomedical
science. Scientific traditions and scientific changes are examined; the roles of
instruments, languages, and images in everyday practice are analyzed; the theme
of scientific 'revolution' is scrutinized; and the interactions of the sciences
with literature, religion, and ideology are examined.

For more details of the
print book, and how to buy it online, please see The Modern Physical and
Mathematical Sciences in the Cambridge University Press online catalogue.

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The
Public Cultures of the Physical Sciences After 1800

Discipline
Building in the Sciences: Places, Instruments, Communication

Chemistry
and Physics: Problems Through the Early 1900s

Atomic
and Molecular Sciences in the Twentieth Century

Mathematics,
Astronomy, and Cosmology Since the Eighteenth Century

Problems
and Promises at the End of the Twentieth Century

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