An Essay in the History of Scientific Ideas
by
Charles Coulston Gillispie
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
Originally published in 1960, The Edge of Objectivity helped to establish the history of science as a full-fledged academic discipline. In the mid-1950s, a young professor at Princeton named Charles Gillispie began teaching Humanities 304, one of the first undergraduate courses offered anywhere in...