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The emergence of a scientific culture : science and the shaping of modernity 1210-1685
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The emergence of a scientific culture : science and the shaping of modernity 1210-1685

Author: Stephen Gaukroger
Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon, 2006.
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Stephen Gaukroger
ISBN: 9780199296446 0199296448
OCLC Number: 71238474
Description: ix, 563 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Science and modernity -- Augustinian synthesis to Aristotelian amalgam -- Renaissance natural philosophies -- The interpretation of nature and the origins of physico-theology -- Reconstructing natural philosophy -- Reconstructing the natural philosopher -- The aims of enquiry -- Corpuscularianism and the rise of mechanism -- The scope of mechanism -- Experimental natural philosophy -- The quantitative transformation of natural philosophy -- The unity of knowledge.
Responsibility: Stephen Gaukroger.
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