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This marvelous book is at once a history of the relationship between science and art and a meditation on its significance. It calls to mind Michel Serres’s wonderful work on the Northwest Passage—that ocean route sought for so long as a path between Europe and America that did not have to go the long way around. Serres argued that there was always a passage between the natural sciences and the arts; Rogers takes us convincingly on the journey back. Drawing especially on the work of Howard Becker, she demonstrates that science and art are similar kinds of human endeavor—they are works produced by elites to reach a specialized public. Under the covers, they are sociologically the same kind of enterprise: “Like art theorists considering what art consists of and science studies scholars querying definitions of science, we might consider the possibility that art and science are best thought of as particular types of attention, rather than features that indelibly mark them as one or the other” (p. 2). As she rightly stresses, the field of science and technology studies has been in the forefront of the sociological and conceptual fusion of the two.