The Making of Modern Science: Science, Technology, Medicine and Modernity: 1789 - 1914ISBN: 978-0-7456-3676-4
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272 pages
November 2009, Polity
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British Journal for the History of Science
"A fine synthesis, the fruit of a lifetime's study and
reflection, which should prompt some readers to begin a lifetime
study of their own."
Times Higher Education
"A superb history of the discipline."
The Diplomat
"A magisterial survey. For anyone who has experienced the
delight of hearing Knight deliver a public lecture, reading this
will summon up his mellifluous voice as though he were standing in
the same room."
Metascience
"Replete with insight and astute synthesis. It conveys the
excitement of science and of its history."
Social History of Medicine
"Knight ably discusses the various threads in this complex
story, his description of the people and events which shaped the
scientific developments are always interesting, and his
interpretation of the philosophical and cultural changes are always
insightful. Knight has a lot to offer any reader interested in how
the profession established itself as one for skilled minds ... This
book is well researched and well written and is to be recommended
to anyone interested in how science and scientists emerged in the
20th century."
Chemistry World
"The book is replete with insight and astute synthesis. It
conveys the excitement of science and of its history."
Social History of Medicine
"David Knight has long delighted his readers with books on the
history of science that have been both instructive and
entertaining. Here he draws on a lifetime's study to explain how
science - as a practical, intellectually challenging, and socially
diverse activity - gained its cultural importance in the long
nineteenth-century. Warmly recommended."
John Hedley Brooke, Andreas Idreos Professor Emeritus of
Science & Religion, University of Oxford
"David Knight's latest book is a glittering magnum opus in which
he describes the professionalization of science by drawing on
examples from various disciplines. The writing is erudite, lucid
and upbeat. The book is a social history, an institutional history
and an internal history all in one, and it is gratifying to see
chemistry assuming a rather central position in the story."
Eric Scerri, author of The Periodic Table, Its Story and Its
Significance
"This book is a pleasure to read: light in style, yet incisive,
informative, and even profound. With a few well-chosen words Knight
can conjure up a Huxley or a Faraday, or explain the problems
scientists faced in understanding the variety of human 'races'. His
explanations of scientific issues go to the heart of the matter and
are never weighed down with detail. I can't think of a better or
more rounded introduction to the history of nineteenth-century
science."
Geoffrey Cantor, University of Leeds