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Science and state

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  • French savants huddled together at the top of a column, while a band of Bedouin Arabs set fire to it below; exaggerating the troubled experience of the 'Commission des Sciences et des Arts' during Napoleon's invasion of Egypt. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1799.
  • French savants huddled together at the top of a column, while a band of Bedouin Arabs set fire to it below; exaggerating the troubled experience of the 'Commission des Sciences et des Arts' during Napoleon's invasion of Egypt. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1799.
  • French savants huddled together at the top of a column, while a band of Bedouin Arabs set fire to it below; exaggerating the troubled experience of the 'Commission des Sciences et des Arts' during Napoleon's invasion of Egypt. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1799.
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Catalogue

    • Books

    States of knowledge : the co-production of science and social order / edited by Sheila Jasanoff.

    | Date: 2004
    • Audio

    Science secrecy.

    | Date: 2000
    • Books

    The national labs : science in an American system, 1947-1974 / Peter J. Westwick.

    Westwick, Peter J. | Date: 2003
    • Books
    • Online

    The impact of spending cuts on science and scientific research : sixth report of session 2009-10.

    Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Science and Technology. | Date: 2010
    • Books

    Statesmen of science : Henry Brougham, William Robert Grove, Lyon Playfair, the Prince Consort, the Seventh Duke of Devonshire, Alexander Strange, Richard Burdon Haldane, Henry Thomas Tizard [and] Frederick Alexander Lindemann / J.G. Crowther.

    Crowther, J. G. (James Gerald), 1899-1983. | Date: [1965]
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