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The collapse of mechanism and the rise of sensibility [electronic resource] : science and the shaping of modernity, 1680-1760 / Stephen Gaukroger.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2010.Description: 1 online resource (ix, 505 p.) : illISBN:
  • 9780191595745 (ebook) :
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version: No titleDDC classification:
  • 509.409033 22
LOC classification:
  • Q127.E8
Online resources: 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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