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Ways of Viewing Science and Society. Ed. by Chaokang Tai, Bart van der Steen, and Jeroen van Dongen. [Studies in the History of Knowledge.] Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam .  pp. Ill. € ..Anton Pannekoek (-) was at the nexus of the revolutions in politics, science, and the arts of the early twentieth century, pioneering quantitative astrophysics as an astronomer. Before World War I, however, he was employed as a Marxist theorist by the Social Democratic Party of Germany. The fourteen articles in this volume show that his contributions to astronomy and socialism cannot be considered independent from each other. The multifaceted view that emerges from exploring his work demonstrates that his socialist and scientific career are deeply interconnected. Pannekoek stood at the epicentre of new developments and contributed to them at least as much as he reflected them.