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What is this thing called science?

By Jon Turney

16 March 2002

How to keep up is the problem. We’ve done the hard work with a round-up of the scholarly, the expert and the unexpected. Read on for science studies, the book that took thirty years to write, maths, primates, lasers, supramolecular chemistry, and eco-economy, and more

CALL something a scientific revolution and you are hardly making a scientific judgment. Call something the scientific revolution, and you are taking a view about the course of European thought. Invoke both terms together and you go to the heart of science studies—the jumble of inquiries pursued by academic folk who do not actually do…

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