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Author:
Gaukroger, Stephen.
Title:
The collapse of mechanism and the rise of sensibility : science and the shaping of modernity, 1680-1760 / Stephen Gaukroger.
Publisher:
Clarendon Press ;
Copyright Date:
2010
Description:
ix, 505 p. : ill ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Science--Europe--History--17th century.
Science--Europe--History--18th century.
Philosophy and science--Europe--History--17th century.
Philosophy and science--Europe--History--18th century.
Religion and science--Europe--History--17th century.
Religion and science--Europe--History--18th century.
Science and civilization.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [454]-491) and index.
Contents:
The construction of a new world picture -- The mathematical principles of natural philosophy -- The metaphysical unity of natural philosophy -- From experimental philosophy to empiricism -- Explaining the phenomena -- Natural philosophy and the republic of letters -- The realm of reason -- The fortunes of a mechanical model for natural philosophy -- Material activity -- Living and dead matter -- The realm of sensibility -- Historical understanding and the human condition.
ISBN:
0199594937 (hbk.)
9780199594931 (hbk.)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)653082467
LCCN:
2010933182
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

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