TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gaukroger,Stephen
TI  - The collapse of mechanism and the rise of sensibility: science and the shaping of modernity, 1680-1760 
SN  - 9780191595745 (ebook) :
AV  - Q127.E8 
U1  - 509.409033 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Science
KW  - Europe
KW  - History
KW  - 17th century
KW  - 18th century
KW  - Philosophy and science
KW  - Religion and science
KW  - Science and civilization
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - 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
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199594931.001.0001
ER  -