The collapse of mechanism and the rise of sensibility science and the shaping of modernity, 1680-1760
How did we come to have a scientific culture - one in which cognitive values are shaped around scientific ones? Stephen Gaukroger presents a rich and fascinating investigation of the development of intellectual culture in early modern Europe, a period in which understandings of the natural realm beg...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford
Oxford University Press
2010, c2010
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| Collection: | Oxford University Press - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | How did we come to have a scientific culture - one in which cognitive values are shaped around scientific ones? Stephen Gaukroger presents a rich and fascinating investigation of the development of intellectual culture in early modern Europe, a period in which understandings of the natural realm began to fragment |
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| Physical Description: | ix, 505 p. ill |
| ISBN: | 9780191595745 0191595748 |