Technoscience in History
The relationship of the current technosciences and the older engineering sciences, examined through the history of the "useful" sciences in Prussia.Do today's technoscientific disciplines--including…
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The relationship of the current technosciences and the older engineering sciences, examined through the history of the "useful" sciences in Prussia.Do today's technoscientific disciplines--including materials science, genetic engineering, nanotechnology, and robotics--signal a radical departure from traditional science? In Technoscience in History, Ursula Klein argues that these novel disciplines and projects are not an "epochal break," but are part of a history that can be traced back to German "useful" sciences and beyond. Klein's account traces a deeper history of technoscience, mapping the relationship between today's cutting-edge disciplines and the development of the useful and technological sciences in Prussia from 1750 to 1850.Klein shows that institutions that coupled natural-scientific and technological inquiry existed well before the twentieth
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