Science in the Twentieth Century. (book reviews)

John Krige and Dominique Pestre ed xxxv + 941 pp Harwood Academic Publishers, 1997 $120

As the 19th hundred drew to a close, John Theodore Merz undertook his monumental A History of European notion in the Nineteenth Century, a 2,732-page work that observeed scientific and philosophical thought in Germany, France and Britain.

The body under review differs from its predecessor in many ways. It was written according to 49 authors and includes 46 chapters upon topics ranging from images of science, science and the social fabric, research dynamics, and regional and national institutions.