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==Chapter Summaries== | ==Chapter Summaries== | ||
===Preface | ===Preface to the Enlarged Edition=== | ||
Now, more than ever, science if being used as the hammer to solve all of society’s problems. Thus taking it away from it’s true purpose. | Now, more than ever, science if being used as the hammer to solve all of society’s problems. Thus taking it away from it’s true purpose. | ||
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This new edition has 3 extra chapters: | This new edition has 3 extra chapters: | ||
# The | # The History of Automata: “[it] serves as a link between the development of clockwork and the mechanistic philosophy that has played a central role in the conceptual side of science.” | ||
# The Geometrical amulets: “Links science with magical pseudoscience” | |||
# The Geometrical amulets | |||
# Relating science and technology | # Relating science and technology | ||
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“I hoped, in addition, to show scientists that we ought to be able to talk about science with as much scholarly right as other humanists receive, and that our approach might (if successful) lead to a different or better understanding than one could get by just "doing” science.” | “I hoped, in addition, to show scientists that we ought to be able to talk about science with as much scholarly right as other humanists receive, and that our approach might (if successful) lead to a different or better understanding than one could get by just "doing” science.” | ||