Stephen Gaukroger, "The Collapse of Mechanism and the Rise of Sensibility: Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1680-1760"
English | ISBN 10: 0199594937 | 2011 | PDF | 464 pages | 3.1 MB
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.