The Collapse of Mechanism and the Rise of Sensibility: Science And The Shaping Of Modernity, 1680-1760: Science and Shaping of the Modernity 1680-1760

by StephenGaukroger (Author)

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  Paperback
  2012

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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.