The British Journal for the History of Science

Book Reviews

Science in Culture

Richard Olson, Science Deified and Science Defied. The Historical Significance of Science in Western Culture from the Bronze Age to the Beginnings of the Modern Era ca. 3500 b.c. to ca. a.d. 1640. Berkeley—Los Angeles—London: University of California Press, 1983. Pp. xv + 329 ISBN 0-520-04621-8. £27.50. $42.

Liliane Bodsona1

a1 University of Liège