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Civilization and the Culture of Science .Net for a rare behind-the-scenes lookHow did science come to have such a central place in Western culture? How did cognitive values and subsequently moral, political, and social ones come to be modelled around scientific values? In Civilization and the Culture of Science, Stephen Gaukroger explores how these values were shaped and how they began, in turn, to shape those of society. The core nineteenth and twentieth century development is that in which science comes to take centre stage