Item K/PP178/9/1/5 - Reference material on the history of science, 1968-1981

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K/PP178/9/1/5

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Reference material on the history of science, 1968-1981

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  • 1968 - 1981 (Creation)

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Published articles on the history of science, including: article by Thomas Kuhn, ‘The history of science’, published in International encyclopedia of social science 1968; copy extracts from Joseph Needham, Clerks and craftsmen in China and the West: lectures and addresses on the history of science and technology (Cambridge University Press, 1970);booklet, ‘The roots of present-day science’ by Jerry Ravetz (Open University, 1971); P M Rattansi, ‘Voltaire and the Enlightenment: image of Newton’, published in History and imagination: essays in honour of Hugh Trevor-Roper (Duckworth, London, 1981)

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A significant portion of the collection items are available online in the Maurice Wilkins and Medical Research Council Biophysics Unit archive hosted by the Wellcome Library.

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