The animating questions behind this timely, concise, and ambitious book are immediately compelling: How did the persistent partnership between science and the modern nation-state arise and evolve around the world over the past five hundred years? How did the state and the science community coevolve from the early modern world of Kepler, Newton, Galileo, and Bacon to the radically disruptive, enormously costly experience of World War II?
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