| The Natural and the Human: Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1739-1841 Contributor(s): Gaukroger, Stephen (Author) |
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ISBN: 0198757638 ISBN-13: 9780198757634 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $64.60 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | History & Surveys - Modern - Science | History - Science | Philosophy & Social Aspects |
| Dewey: 509.409 |
| LCCN: 2015943256 |
| Physical Information: 1.2" H x 6" W x 9.3" (1.54 lbs) 412 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Stephen Gaukroger presents an original account of the development of empirical science and the understanding of human behaviour from the mid-eighteenth century. Since the seventeenth century, science in the west has undergone a unique form of cumulative development in which it has been consolidated through integration into and shaping of a culture. But in the eighteenth century, science was cut loose from the legitimating culture in which it had had a public rationale as a fruitful |