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Here, Lawson (history, Northeastern State Univ.; Servants and Servitude in Colonial America) asserts that modern science has evolved out of humankind's need to impose organization and understanding on the world. Making connections between science and mythology, magic, soothsaying, and math, he cites a variety of sources, including ancient works (e.g., The Epic of Gilgamesh; Hippocrates's Law of Medicine). Lawson draws parallels between modern and ancient sciences and reveals that early scientists were priests, government officials, rulers, authors, enslaved people, artists, and abstract thinke...Log In or Sign Up to Read More