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This book focuses on the major developments in the history of contemporary (19th and 20th century) mathematics as seen in the broader context of the development of science and culture.

In the late 1950s, a new spectacular and expensive instrument for British science was erected. The Jodrell Bank Radio Telescope built on the Cheshire plains could be seen for miles around. The construction of the telescope to the politics and culture of postwar Britain is the subject of this text.

What level of scientific training is necessary to understand contemporary science? Does the lack of historical perspective prevent good scholarship? This text answers these questions.

With the rise of genomics, the life sciences have entered a new era. This book provides a comprehensive history of molecular genetics and genomics.

A comprehensive history of molecular genetics and genomics, this text shows how the genetic cartography of classical genetics was linked to the molecular analysis of gene structure through the introduction of new model organisms such as bacteria and addresses the moral and political economy of human genome sequencing.

With the rise of genomics, life sciences have entered a new era. This text provides a history of mapping procedures as they were developed in classical genetics. It shows the technology of genetic mapping is by no means a recent acquisition and demonstrates that the development of mapping technologies has accompanied the rise of modern genetics.

Studies the history of natural historical investigations of insects in the light of the growing institutional organization of the agricultural sciences in the United States and Canada, exploring how this context has shaped the emergence of economic entomology and ecology.

The contours of space exploration in the latter half of the 20th century owe much to the seminal but hardly singular event of Sputnik. This work looks at how this event changed history on October 4th, 1957 when the former Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik 1.

A look at the relationship between the development of science and the development of military technology during the Cold War.

This text gathers together examples of the current thinking on methodology and the theoretical perspectives that are increasingly of concern to historians of technology, whilst at the same time presenting other papers which reflect the key areas of historical debate.

We are now accustomed to conceive of science as an instrumental activity, producing numbers, measurements and graphs by means of sophisticated devices. This book investigates the historical process that gave rise to this instrumental culture.

This book focuses on the major developments in the history of contemporary (19th and 20th century) mathematics as seen in the broader context of the development of science and culture.

Shows how sovereignty has been constructed, reaffirmed, and transformed in the Twentieth century by the construction of scientific disciplines, knowledge practices, and research objects. This book offers a redefinition of the modern concept of sovereignty and an illuminating reassessment of the role of science in political life.

In this volume, scholars from these two very different traditions are brought together. Never before has a single volume contained such a distinguished and diverse group of historians of technology.

This collection of essays explores the history of control by looking at a variety of cultural forms, practices and beliefs. These ideas are examined in the light of the possibilities which control technologies seem to offer for resolving human problems.

This book traces the development of ideas about the transmission of disease during the last century to a point where a clear distinction was established between transmission by infection and genetic transmission.