Edited by Iwan Rhys Morus, Professor of History, Aberystwyth University

Iwan Rhys Morus first developed his interest in the history of science whilst studying natural sciences at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He is currently Professor of History at Aberystwyth University and is the author of a number of books in the history of science, including Frankenstein's Children (1998), When Physics Became King (2005) and Shocking Bodies (2011). He is married with three children.

Peter Bowler, Queen's University Belfast
Sonja Brentjes, Max Planck Institute
James Evans, University of Puget Sound
Jan Golinski, University of New Hampshire
Donald Harper, University of Chicago
John Henry, University of Edinburgh
Steven Livesey, University of Oklahoma
Iwan Rhys Morus, University of Aberystwyth
Amanda Rees, University of York
Dagmar Schaefer, University of Manchester
Charlotte Sleigh, University of Kent
Robert Smith, University of Alberta
Matthew Stanley, New York University

"A fabulous series of essays from more than a dozen science historians that show science interacting with and being influenced by culture and society. Morus and company succeed in showing science as a product of human culture, not a phenomenon apart from it." - Publishers Weekly

"This book successfully shows for a general audience that science is culture and that "science"-singular-has never existed...chapeau for a beautiful andnuanced comprehensive history of science." - Floor Haalboom, Erasmus M C Rotterdam andUtrecht Univ, Isis Journal of the History of Science Society

"This book is both conventional and not, sweeping yet focused, and really fun to read as both a reference source and as a piece of world history." - New Books in Science podcast