Includes biographies of significant figures, accounts of important texts, and definitions of key concepts such as scepticism, relativism and empiricism.
Author Biography
Anne Rooney gained a degree and a PhD from Trinity College, Cambridge. After teaching at the universities of Cambridge and York, she became a full-time writer. She has written many books on the history and philosophy of science and other aspects of science and technology. She has been a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Newnham College, Cambridge.