http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
x, 264 pages,1 page of color plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Prelude: scientists as prophets and the rhetoric of prophecy -- The Delphic oracle and ancient prophetic ethos -- The natural magician and the prophet: Francis Bacon's ethical alchemy -- Confirming signs: the prophetic ethos of the early Royal Society -- Interlude: competing ethical models and a catch-22 -- J. Robert Oppenheimer: cultic prophet -- Rachel Carson, kairotic prophet -- Media, metaphor, and the "oracles of science" -- Climate change and the technologies of prophecy -- Postlude: problems and solutions.
Includes bibliographical references and index.