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572 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780199296446
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Publication date: 08 February 2007
Description
Why did science emerge in the West and how did scientific values come to be regarded as the yardstick for all other forms of knowledge? Stephen Gaukroger shows just how bitterly the cognitive and cultural standing of science was contested in its e...
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572 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780199296446
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Publication date: 08 February 2007
Description
Why did science emerge in the West and how did scientific values come to be regarded as the yardstick for all other forms of knowledge? Stephen Gaukroger shows just how bitterly the cognitive and cultural standing of science was contested in its e...