What Should We do with the Monster? Electromagnetism and the Psychosociology of Knowledge

Abstract

This investigation begins with the recognition that what passes for knowledge at different times and among different people is not a universal invariable. This is evident not only when one compares primitive with modem societies, or the East with the West, but also with respect to the divergent approaches to understanding the natural world which have been cultivated by Western scientists. The question is why there are such cross-