A scientist's voice in American culture : Simon Newcomb and the rhetoric of scientific method / Albert E. Moyer.
Material type: TextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, �1992.Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 301 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrationsContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780520912137
- 0520912136
- 9780520076891
- 0520076893
- Newcomb, Simon, 1835-1909
- Newcomb, Simon, 1835-1909
- Science -- Methodology
- Science -- United States -- History
- Scientists -- United States -- Biography
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Science & Technology
- Science
- Science -- Methodology
- Scientists
- United States
- Verenigde Staten
- Sciences - General
- Physical Sciences & Mathematics
- 509.2 B 20
- Q143.N49 M68 1992eb
Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-292) and index.
Print version record.
This is a full-length study of Newcomb that traces the development of his faith in science and ranges over topics of great public debate in the Gilded Age, from the reform of economic theory to the recasting of the debate between science and religion.
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