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London Review of Books Christmas Books

Scientific Antlers

Steven Shapin

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Steven Shapin is Franklin L. Ford Professor of the History of Science at Harvard. His new book, The Scientific Life: A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation, was published in October.

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