Science and the State

Science, the state and their mutual dependence Modern science and the modern state emerged at much the same time in early modern Europe and both institutions were consolidated further in the centuries which followed - particularly so in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in response to the imperatives of industrialisation and war. Was this co-incidence? It is the argument of this book that it was not, that the growth of science and the state were linked and both drew on each other in establishing and augmenting their sway. To convey an overview of the major themes which such a survey of the relations between science and the state entails we begin by asking what, in broad, were some of the major ways in which the state and science interacted?--