Science, Progressivism, and Military Preparedness
The Case of the Naval Research Laboratory, 1915-1923
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4022289 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David K Van Keuren (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1992 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 710 |
| Publication date | 1992-10-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Technology and Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0040-165X • E-ISSN: 1097-3729 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3106587 |
| OpenAlex | W4376543984, W2324092523 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
scientific spirit is the discipline of democracy, the escape from drift, the outlook of a free man.' So concludes Walter Lippmann's peroration on Mastery in his 1914 classic Drift and Mastery. The application of scientific method to all aspects of life, Lippmann deduced, necessarily would lead to man's mastery of his physical and social environment and of those internal and external states that conditioned his
Aeronautics · Ancient history · Battlefield · Civilization · Democracy · Nuclear weapon · Political science · Politics · Preparedness · Progressivism · Social science · Sociology · Engineering · History · Law · Research, Science, and Academia · Twentieth Century Scientific Developments
| Citations per year | 0.1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1996 - 2005 (10) |
| Highly cited | No |