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Nature 446, 731 (12 April 2007) | doi:10.1038/446731a; Published online 11 April 2007
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The birth of science
Peter Dear1
BOOK REVIEWED-The Emergence of a Scientific Culture: Science and the Shaping of Modernity 1210–1685
by Stephen Gaukroger
Oxford University Press: 2006. 576 pp. £35, $65
Why do we look to science to guide our lives in the modern world? That most of us do so is manifest from an examination of the cultural and political history of the past century.
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