The author is Professor of the History of Science at Harvard. You can buy it here. Not only have I not read this book, I haven’t even judged it by its cover. I judge by the title alone.
Via bioephemera.
Presentation to the Joint Chiefs Operations Directorate
November 11, 2022
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Wow.
What else is there to say? Perhaps that I know (or think I know) that most publishers title books rather than authors. This suggests two possibilities for how possibly the greatest subtitle ever came to be:
1) The publisher thought this was a good idea; or
2) The author somehow demanded that publisher use his subtitle.
I’m not sure which option is more frightening.
Your “buy it here” link is missing an h. Here it is:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0801894212?ie=UTF8&tag=httpchrisblat-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0801894212
Shapin’s (and Schaffer’s) “Leviathan and the Water Pump” is also a classic of the STS genre.
See the classic on this subject here: http://www.amazon.com/Science-Action-Scientists-Engineers-through/dp/0674792912