M&D Deep Duck Read. On science.

[Dave Monroe]

Williams, Raymond.  Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society.
   Rev. ed.  Oxford and New York: Oxford UP, 2014 (1976, 1983,  2005)

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/keywords-9780199393213

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keywords:_A_Vocabulary_of_Culture_and_Society

E.g., "Science" (see pp. 277-8)

http://books.google.com/books?id=lDEone3sKBQC&q=science#v=snippet&q=science&f=false

https://aklatangbayan.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/raymond-williams-keywords.pdf

On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 5:27 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ongoing baseline concept--hat tip to a longtime Plister--Mason & Dixon
> are 'scientists' within their time, right? Or at least technologists?
> What was status of such?
>
> The pages from this book show how mathematics was taught to many young
> Englishmen so they could navigate at sea but how surveying became
> steadily popular to measure estates. Mathematics and astronomy
> skillls. Accuracy, that necessary condition of science. The not-magic.
>
> https://books.google.com/books?id=urKT4s0qP88C&pg=PA162&dq=surveying+%2B+18th+Century&hl=en&sa=X&ei=zrKWVJHGE-6LsQSKtYCIAg&ved=0CDEQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=surveying%20%2B%2018th%20Century&f=false
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