Applied Science: Knowledge, Modernity, and Britain's Public Realm

by Robert Bud

For almost two centuries, the category of 'applied science' was widely taken to be both real and important. Then, its use faded. How could an entire category of science appear and disappear? By taking a longue dur e approach to British attitudes across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Robert Bud explores the scientific and cultural trends that led to such a dramatic rise and fall. He traces the prospects and consequences that gave the term...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1009365231
• ISBN13: 9781009365239
• Release Date: March 2024
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 342 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"