The Collapse of Mechanism and the Rise of Sensibility: Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1680-1760 by Stephen Gaukroger

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

Stephen Gaukroger

505 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction history science challenging informative slow-paced
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Understanding the emergence of a scientific culture - one in which cognitive values generally are modelled on, or subordinated to, scientific ones - is one of the foremost historical and philosophical problems with which we are now confronted. The...

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