Science, technology, and society / Descartes ... [et al. ; compiled and edited by the faculty of] Lynchburg College.

Contributor Descartes, René, 1596-1650.

Imprint:Washington, D.C. : University Press of America, [c1982]

Descriptionx, 458 p. ; 22 cm.

Note:Discourse on method / Rene Descartes -- Modern science and modern man / James Conant -- Science and common understanding / Robert J. Oppenheimer -- Science: the endless frontier / Vannevar Bush -- Pure science, applied science, and technology: an attempt at definitions / James K. Feibleman -- The principles of scientific management / Frederick W. Taylor -- The children of Frankenstein / Herbert J. Muller -- Authoritarian and democratic techniques / Lewis Mumford -- The technological order / Jacques Ellul -- How technology will shape the future / Emmanuel G. Mesthene -- Science and culture / Thomas Henry Huxley -- Walking / Henry David Thoreau -- Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres / Henry Adams -- Education of Henry Adams / Henry Adams -- Prayer to the virgin of Chartres / Henery Adams -- Brave new world / Aldous Huxley -- The time machine / H.G. Wells.

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