Interactions: Some Contacts Between the Natural Sciences and the Social Sciences

by I. Bernard Cohen

One of the fruits of the Scientific Revolution was the idea of a social science that would operate in ways comparable to the newly triumphant natural sciences. Thus was set in motion a long and often convoluted chain of two-way interactions that still have implications for both scholarship and public policy. This book, by the dean of American historians of science, offers an excellent historical perspective on these interactions. One of the fruits...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262531240
• ISBN13: 9780262531245
• Release Date: November 1994
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher