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Dr. Mason makes evident the influence of philosophical and theological conceptions on scientific inquiry, and in telling his story and also exhibits the roles played by social and technological needs in determining the direction of scientific research. The book’s core is determined to be in the modern period; though it provides an admirable historical perspective for appreciating the important intellectual and practical problems facing us as a result of the continuing expansion of the scientific enterprise.
It is by far the best one-volume account in English of the development of the natural sciences. It presents an illuminating and highly readable survey of the growth of scientific ideas from ancient to contemporary achievements, and it includes much material not readily accessible otherwise on the contributions only recently discovered of Babylonian, Oriental as well as Medieval science.
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