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Herbert Butterfield on Science

1900–1979 England

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Considering the part played by the sciences in the story of our Western civilization, it is hardly possible to doubt the importance which the history of science will sooner or later acquire both in its own right and as the bridge which has been so long needed in between the Arts and the Sciences.

The Origins of Modern Science (1957)

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