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The Collapse of Mechanism and the Rise of Sensibility: Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1680-1760 - Science and the Shaping of Modernity Gaukroger, Stephen (University of Sydney)
The Collapse of Mechanism and the Rise of Sensibility: Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1680-1760 - Science and the Shaping of Modernity
Gaukroger, Stephen (University of Sydney)
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.
516 pages
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | December 29, 2012 |
| ISBN13 | 9780199664665 |
| Publishers | Oxford University Press |
| Pages | 516 |
| Dimensions | 163 × 233 × 28 mm · 861 g |
| Language | English |
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