Abstract
WHEN eighty years ago, H. T. Buckle wrote his “History of Civilization in England”, his main thesis was that the course of human progress could be traced in the growth of scientific truth. He applied scientific principles to the study of history, but measured progress too much by materialistic achievements for his analysis of causes to be accepted by historians as complete. Mr. J. G. Crowther takes a truer and broader view of the social and intellectual influences of natural knowledge, and is not so much concerned with maintaining a proposition as in presenting a picture of creative scientific thought and action. He has long been esteemed as a clear interpreter of scientific developments to general readers, through his articles in the newspaper press and other literary works; and he realizes fully the relations between these advances and the structure of society.
The Social Relations of Science
By J. G. Crowther. Pp. xxxii + 665. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1941.) 16s. net.
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GREGORY, R. The Social Relations of Science. Nature 148, 4–5 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/148004a0
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