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CONTENTS PREFACE 1. INTRODUCTION: SCIENCE, SOCIETY, AND HISTORY PART I EPISODES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF SCIENCE 2. THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION 3. THE CHEMICAL REVOLUTION 4. THE CONSERVATION OF ENERGY 5. THE AGE OF THE EARTH 6. THE DARWINIAN REVOLUTION 7. THE NEW BIOLOGY 8. GENETICS 9. ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES 10. CONTINENTAL DRIFT 11. TWENTIETH-CENTURY PHYSICS 12. REVOLUTIONIZING COSMOLOGY 13. THE EMERGENCE OF THE HUMAN SCIENCES PART II THEMES IN THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE 14. THE ORGANIZATION OF SCIENCE 15. SCIENCE AND RELIGION 16. POPULAR SCIENCE 17. SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 18. BIOLOGY AND IDEOLOGY 19. SCIENCE AND MEDICINE 20. SCIENCE AND WAR 21. SCIENCE AND GENDER 22. EPILOGUE INDEX
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Science -- History -- Textbooks.
Science -- History -- 20th century -- Textbooks.