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The world didn't end on 10 September 2008, but the possibility may have got you thinking: was it worth the risk What is the point of science actually This book considers these questions and explores the social and ethical implications of science by linking them to issues facing scientists: human extinction, and extraterrestrial intelligence.

(Paperback)

Although the mathematization of nature is a distinctive and crucial feature of the emergence of modern science in the seventeenth century, this volume shows that it was a far more complex, contested, and context-dependent phenomenon than the received historiography has indicated.