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The emergence of a scientific culture : science and the shaping of modernity, 1210-1685 / Stephen Gaukroger.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gaukroger, Stephen, author.
- Series:
- Science and the Shaping of Modernity
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Philosophy and science--Europe--History.
- Philosophy and science.
- Religion and science--Europe--History.
- Religion and science.
- Science and civilization.
- Science--Europe--History.
- Science.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 563 pages) : illustrations
- Other Title:
- Science and the shaping of modernity, 1210-1685
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 early development. Rejecting the traditional picture of secularization, he argues that science in the seventeenth century emerged not in opposition to religion but rather was in many respects driven by it. Moreover, science did not present aunified picture of nature but was an unstable field of different, often locally successful but just as often inco
- Contents:
- Science and modernity
- Augustinian synthesis to Aristotelian amalgam
- Renaissance natural philosophies
- The interpretation of nature and the origins of physico-theology
- Reconstructing natural philosophy
- Reconstructing the natural philosopher
- The aims of enquiry
- Corpuscularianism and the rise of mechanism
- The scope of mechanism
- Experimental natural philosophy
- The quantitative transformation of natural philosophy
- The unity of knowledge.
- 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:
- 0-19-955001-8
- 1-280-75634-9
- 9786610756346
- 0-19-156391-9
- 0-19-153789-6
- 1-4356-2297-9
- OCLC:
- 560556862
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