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The Natural and the Human : Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1739-1841, Paperback / softback Book

The Natural and the Human : Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1739-1841 Paperback / softback

Part of the Science and the Shaping of Modernity series

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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

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