Hidden Histories of Science (New York Review of Books Collections Series)

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Edited by Robert B. Silvers,

by Jonathan Miller and Oliver W. Sacks

Nyrev, Inc

Due/Published May 1996, 193 pages, paper

ISBN 0940322056

These five essays show that science is, in the words of Oliver Sacks, "a human enterprise through and through, an organic, evolving, human growth, with sudden spurts and arrests, and strange deviations, too. It grows out of its past, but never outgrows it, any more than we outgrow our childhood."