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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)
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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)
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.
520 pages, Illustrations
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | November 25, 2010 |
| ISBN13 | 9780199594931 |
| Publishers | Oxford University Press |
| Pages | 516 |
| Dimensions | 166 × 240 × 47 mm · 990 g |