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Why did science emerge in the West and how did scientific values come to be regarded as the yardstick for all other forms of knowledge? Stephen Gaukroger shows

Seeking to understand the cultural origins of the Industrial Revolution of the eighteenth century, this text first looks at the scientific culture of the sevent

How did science come to have such a central place in Western culture? How did our ways of thinking, and our moral, political, and social values, come to be mode

The importance of science and technology and future of education and research are just some of the subjects discussed here.

This volume brings together a collection of seven articles previously published by the author, with a new introduction reframing the articles in the context of