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Science 10 July 2009:
Vol. 325. no. 5937, p. 149
DOI: 10.1126/science.1175513
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History of Science:

Babylon, Newton, and All That

Michael D. Gordin

Science A Four Thousand Year History by Patricia Fara Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2009. 424 pp. $34.95, £20. ISBN 9780199226894.

In this accessible history, Fara surveys the practice of science from ancient Babylon through current projects in genomics and particle physics.

The reviewer is at the Department of History, Princeton University, 129 Dickinson Hall, Princeton, NJ 08544–1017, USA.

E-mail: mgordin{at}princeton.edu

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