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Hidden Histories of Science

by Silvers, Robert B.
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Overview

These five essays show that science is, in the words of Oliver Sacks, "a human enterprise through and through, an organic, evolving, human growth, with sudden spurts and arrests, and strange deviations, too. It grows out of its past, but never outgrows it, any more than we outgrow our childhood."

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Book Details

Published
June 14, 2026
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pages
193
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9781590170526

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