The Cambridge History of Science, Volume 5: The Modern Physical and Mathematical Sciences

The Cambridge History of Science #5

by Roy Porter

This volume is a narrative and interpretive history of the physical and mathematical sciences from the early nineteenth century to the close of the twentieth century. Drawing upon the most recent methods and results in historical studies of science, the authors of over thirty chapters employ strategies from intellectual history, social history, and cultural studies to provide unusually wide-ranging and comprehensive insights into developments in the public culture, disciplinary organization, and cognitive content of the physical and mathematical sciences.

Genres: History, Science, History Of Science, Mathematics, Nonfiction, Physics

678 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2002

About the author

Roy's books cover several fields: the history of geology, London, 18th-Century British ideas and society, medicine, madness, quackery, patients and practitioners, literature and art, on which subjects (and others) he published over 200 books are articles.

List of works can be found @ wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Porter )

Reviews

[Ibraheem]

is there an arabic copy ?