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The Collapse of Mechanism and the Rise of Sensibility : Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1680-1760 by Stephen Gaukroger is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Collapse of Mechanism and the Rise of Sensibility : Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1680-1760 about?
How did we come to have a scientific culture -- one in which cognitive values are shaped around scientific ones? Stephen Gaukroger presents a rich and fascinating investigation of the development of intellectual culture in early modern Europe, a period in which understandings of the natural realm began to fragment.
Who reads The Collapse of Mechanism and the Rise of Sensibility : Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1680-1760?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Stephen Gaukroger
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780199664665
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Science, Social Science
- Rating
- 4.57 / 5 (7 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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