Making Modern Science: A Historical Survey Peter J. Bowler and Iwan Rhys Morus In Making Modern Science, Peter J. Bowler and Iwan Rhys Morus explore both the history of science itself and its influence on modern thought, chronicling all major developments in scientific thinking, from the revolutionary ideas of the seventeenth century to the contemporary issues of evolution, genetics, nuclear physics, and modern cosmology. Written by seasoned historians, Making Modern Science will encourage readers to see the history of science not as a series of names and dates but as an interconnected and complex web relationships between science and modern society. Peter J. Bowler is professor of the history of science in the school of Anthropological Studies at Queen's University, Belfast, and the author of Reconciling Science and Religion: The Debate in Early-Twentieth-Century Britain. Iwan Rhys Morus is lecturer in the Department of History and Welsh History at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, and the author of When Physics Became King