TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ferris,Timothy
TI  - Science of liberty : democracy, reason and the laws of nature 
SN  - 9780060781514
AV  - Q175.5 .F477 2010
U1  - 303.483 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - New York 
PB  - Harper
KW  - Science
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Democracy and science
KW  - History
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Ch. 1; Science & Liberty --; Ch. 2; Science & Liberalism --; Ch. 3; The Rise of Science --; Ch. 4; The Science of Enlightenment --; Ch. 5; American Independence --; Ch. 6; The Terror --; Ch. 7; Power --; Ch. 8; Progress --; Ch. 9; The Science of Wealth --; Ch. 10; Totalitarian Antiscience --; Ch. 11; Academic Antiscience --; Ch. 12; One World
N2  - "Timothy Ferris makes a passionate case for science as the inspiration behind the rise of liberalism and democracy. Ferris argues that just as the scientific revolution rescued billions from poverty, fear, hunger, and disease, the Enlightenment values it inspired has swelled the number of persons living in free and democratic societies from less than 1 percent of the world population four centuries ago to more than a third today." "Ferris investigates the evolution of these scientific and political revolutions, demonstrating that they are inextricably bound. He shows how science was integral to the American Revolution but misinterpreted in the French Revolution; reflects on the history of liberalism, stressing its widely underestimated and mutually beneficial relationship with science; and surveys the forces that have opposed science and liberalism - from communism and fascism to postmodernism and Islamic fundamentalism."--BOOK JACKET
ER  -