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

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

Gaukroger, Stephen

Hardcover

Series: Science and the Shaping of Modernity

PhilosophySports GeneralHistory & Philosophy of Science

ISBN10: 0198757638
ISBN13: 9780198757634
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Mar 21 2016
Pages: 412
Weight: 1.54
Height: 1.20 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
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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