Author Description

Alfred North Whitehead’s, Science and the Modern World, original published in 1925, helped to define modern science. An amazingly prescient work by more than half a century in predicting the rising dependence and radical change that science and technology would have on our lives. Whitehead’s writing manages to understand and celebrate the contemporary, historical, and cultural context of scientific discovery. Taking readers through the history of modern science, Whitehead shows how cultural history has affected science over the ages.