The collapse of mechanism and the rise of sensibility [electronic resource] : science and the shaping of modernity, 1680-1760 /
by Gaukroger, Stephen.
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BookPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2010Description: 1 online resource (ix, 505 p.) : ill.ISBN: 9780191595745 (ebook) :.Subject(s): Science -- Europe -- History -- 17th century | Science -- Europe -- History -- 18th century | Philosophy and science -- Europe -- History -- 17th century | Philosophy and science -- Europe -- History -- 18th century | Religion and science -- Europe -- History -- 17th century | Religion and science -- Europe -- History -- 18th century | Science and civilizationOnline resources: Oxford scholarship online 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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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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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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