A Theorist of (Not Quite) Everything
Helmholtz: A Life in Science
by David Cahan
October 10, 2019 issue
Advertisement
More from the Review
Subscribe to our Newsletter
Best of The New York Review, plus books, events, and other items of interest
Steven Shapin is Franklin L. Ford Research Professor of the History of Science at Harvard and the author of several books, including The Scientific Life: A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation. (October 2019)
A Theorist of (Not Quite) Everything
Helmholtz: A Life in Science
by David Cahan
October 10, 2019 issue
Subscribe and save 50%!
Read the latest issue as soon as it’s available, and browse our rich archives. You'll have immediate subscriber-only access to over 1,200 issues and 25,000 articles published since 1963.
Subscribe nowSubscribe and save 50%!
Get immediate access to the current issue and over 25,000 articles from the archives, plus the NYR App.
Already a subscriber? Sign in