Historical Archives: Mar 27, 2006
Mon, March 27, 2006
Steven Shapin, Franklin L. Ford professor of the history of science, Harvard University, co-author, Leviathan and the Air-pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life (1986) and author, A Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century England (1994); "The Way We Trust Now: The Authority of Science and the Character of the Scientist"