Overview
- Contains first rate essays ranging from technical history of science to environmental issues
- Addresses the spaces in which science has been conducted, from field science to laboratories, exploring issues of public interest and concerns over government influence
- A wide geographic range, from Europe to the United States and Canada in the transformation of the sciences from the 18th to the 20th centuries
Part of the book series: Archimedes (ARIM, volume 52)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Romance of Science: Essays in Honour of Trevor H. Levere
Editors: Jed Buchwald, Larry Stewart
Series Title: Archimedes
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58436-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-58435-5Published: 17 July 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86408-2Published: 22 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-58436-2Published: 04 July 2017
Series ISSN: 1385-0180
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0064
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 310
Number of Illustrations: 32 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour
Topics: History of Science, Food Science, Popular Science in Humanities / Arts