Was it coincidence that the modern state and modern science arose
at the same time? This overview of the relations of science and
state from the Scientific Revolution to World War II explores this
issue, synthesising a range of approaches from history and
political theory. John Gascoigne argues the case for an ongoing
mutual dependence of the state and science in ways which have
promoted the consolidation of both. Drawing on a wide body of
scholarship, he shows how the changing functions of the state have
brought a wider engagement with science, while the possibilities
that science make available have increased the authority of the
state along with its prowess in war. At the end of World War II,
the alliance between science and state was securely established
and, Gascoigne argues, is still firmly embodied in the post-war
world.
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