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Niels Bohr Archive
History of Science Seminar
Friday 30 January 2009, 14.15
Aud. A, Niels Bohr Institute
Blegdamsvej 17, Copenhagen

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Dr Patricia Fara
Affiliated Lecturer and Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge

Science: A Four Thousand Year History

How do you fit 4000 years of science into 400 pages?
For over twenty years, historians of science have been discussing this ‘Big Picture’ problem, and Patricia Fara’s solution will be published at the end of February by Oxford University Press. In this talk, she discusses three of the Big Questions she had to confront while she was writing her new book –
When did science begin? Who did science? How does science change?
Some of her answers may be unexpected.

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