The Natural and the Human : Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1739-1841 Paperback / softback
by Stephen (University of Sydney) Gaukroger
Part of the Science and the Shaping of Modernity series
Paperback / softback
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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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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:416 pages
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:08/03/2018
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- ISBN:9780198801603
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:416 pages
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:08/03/2018
- Category:
- ISBN:9780198801603