A vision of Jeffersonian science: Jefferson's decision to fund the Lewis and Clark expedition reflected a philosophy of government support for science that makes good sense today

Issues in Science and Technology

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 61-65

  Holton, Gerald ^a   Sonnert, Gerhard ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040962706     PISSN: 07485492     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (6)

1. L. M. Branscomb, "From Science Policy to Research Policy," in Investing in Innovation: Creating a Research and Innovation Policy That Works, ed. L. M. Branscomb and J. H. Keller (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1990), 112-139.
2. H. Brooks, "The Changing Structure of the U.S. Research System, in H. Brooks and R. Schmitt, Current Science and Technology Issues: Two Perspectives, Occasional Paper No. 1 (Washington, D.C.: Graduate Program in Science, Technology, and Public Policy, George Washington University, 1985), 17-72.
3. G. Holton, The Advancement of Science, and Its Burdens (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986) (second edition: Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press).
4. G. Holton, "What Kinds of Science Are Worth Supporting? A New Look, and a New Mode" in The Great Ideas Today (Chicago, Ill.: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1998), 106-136.
5. G. Holton, H. Chang, and E. Jurkowitz, "How a Scientific Discovery is Made: A Case History," American Scientist 84 (1996): 364-375.
6. House Committee on Science, Unlocking Our Future: Toward a New National Science Policy (the "Ehlers Report") (Washington, D.C.: September 1998).