Emergence of a Scientific Culture Science and the Shaping of Modernity 1210-1685

Name: Emergence of a Scientific Culture Science and the Shaping of Modernity 1210-1685
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ISBN: 9780199550012

ISBN-10: 0199550018

ISBN-13: 9780199550012

Edition: 2008

Authors: Stephen Gaukroger

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Why did science emerge in the West and how did scientific values come to be regarded as the yardstick for all other forms of knowledge? Stephen Gaukroger shows just how bitterly the cognitive and cultural standing of science was contested in its early development. Rejecting the traditional picture of secularization, he argues that science in the seventeenth century emerged not in opposition to religion but rather was in many respects driven by it. Moreover, science did not present a unified picture of nature but was an unstable field of different, often locally successful but just as often incompatible, programmes. To complicate matters, much depended on attempts to reshape the persona of…

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List price: $55.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/15/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 576
Size: 9.20" wide x 6.20" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 2.090
Language: English



Introduction






Science and modernity






From 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