Peter Dear

Peter Dear is a historian of science and technology Quotes It would now be possible to maintain, as Andrew Cunningham has done most vociferously, that science in its modern-day sense simply did not exist before the nineteenth century. Arguable as this position is, it remains a minority view, and for good reason: if the knowledge-making practices of the early modern period were not admitted as part of the history of modern science, then historical understanding of the character and creation of modern science itself would become impossible. Category:Historians from the United States Category:Historians of science