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The collapse of mechanism and the rise of sensibility : science and the shaping of modernity, 1680-1760 / Stephen Gaukroger.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gaukroger, Stephen, author.
- Series:
- Science and the Shaping of Modernity Ser.
- Science and the shaping of modernity
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science--Europe--History--17th century.
- Science.
- Science--Europe--History--18th century.
- Philosophy and science--Europe--History--17th century.
- Philosophy and science.
- Philosophy and science--Europe--History--18th century.
- Religion and science--Europe--History--17th century.
- Religion and science.
- Religion and science--Europe--History--18th century.
- Science and civilization.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 300 pages) : illustrations.
- Other Title:
- Science and the shaping of modernity, 1680-1760
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- The construction of a new world picture. The completeness of natural philosophy ; A new metaphysics ; Physico-theology ; The rationalization of religion
- The mathematical principles of natural philosophy. From Principia philosophiae to Principia mathematica ; The structure of Newton's Principia ; Gravitation : matter theory versus mechanics
- The metaphysical unity of natural philosophy. Leibniz and the unity of knowledge ; The role of metaphysics ; Leibnizian dynamics ; Demonstration : geometry versus analysis ; Phenomenalism and the rise of rational mechanics
- From experimental philosophy to empiricism. The vindication of experimental philosophy ; The origins of Locke's Essay ; Natural philosophy and primary qualities ; Locke and the defence of Newton
- Explaining the phenomena. The "Nature" of species ; The "nature" of electricity ; The "nature" of metals ; Causation and explanation
- Natural philosophy and the republic of letters. The Académie des Sciences and the republic of letters ; Vortices, attraction, and the shape of the Earth
- The realm of reason. The birth of the Philosophe ; The Encyclopédie ; Reason and the unity of knowledge
- The fortunes of a mechanical model for natural philosophy. Explanatory models and the unity of natural philosophy ; Mechanics as a priori discipline ; The limits of mechanics
- Material activity. The resurgence of an autonomous matter theory ; Electrified matter ; The chemistry of fluids and sympathies
- Living and dead matter. Matter and activity ; A developmental history of the world
- The realm of sensibility. From sensibility to sensibilism ; Physiological sensitivity ; Moral sensibility ; The unity of sensibility
- Historical understanding and the human condition. The history of manners ; From myth to reason ; Reason and sensibility ; The varieties of understanding.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-966466-8
- 1-283-21561-6
- 9786613215611
- 0-19-161646-X
- OCLC:
- 922970378
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