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The collapse of mechanism and the rise of sensibility

Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1680-1760

Stephen Gaukroger · Jan 1, 2012 · 516 pages · eng

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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.