Making modern science : a historical survey / Peter J. Bowler and Iwan Rhys Morus.

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2005], ©2005.

viii, 529 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

INTRODUCTION: SCIENCE, SOCIETY, AND HISTORY -- EPISODES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF SCIENCE -- THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION -- THE CHEMICAL REVOLUTION -- THE CONSERVATION OF ENERGY -- THE AGE OF THE EARTH -- THE DARWINIAN REVOLUTION -- THE NEW BIOLOGY -- GENETICS -- ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES -- CONTINENTAL DRIFT -- TWENTIETH-CENTURY PHYSICS -- REVOLUTIONIZING COSMOLOGY -- THE EMERGENCE OF THE HUMAN SCIENCES -- THEMES IN THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE -- THE ORGANIZATION OF SCIENCE -- SCIENCE AND RELIGION -- POPULAR SCIENCE -- SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY -- BIOLOGY AND IDEOLOGY -- SCIENCE AND MEDICINE -- SCIENCE AND WAR -- SCIENCE AND GENDER.

Includes bibliographical references and index.