The social history of evolution in Britain

• Main Author: Gordon, Mark A.
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 1974
• Subjects: Social evolution; Great Britain—Civilization; Sociology of Culture
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/6252
• Institution: De La Salle University

It has come to be common for scientists to study the history of scientific thought. But too often even today, we assume our present theories are "truth." Scientific histories usually describe intellectual events as either having enhanced or impeded discoveries consistent with modern theory...