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The emergence of a scientific culture : science and the shaping of modernity 1210-1685 / Stephen Gaukroger.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford : Clarendon, 2006.Description: ix, 563 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780199296446 (cased)
  • 0199296448 (cased)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • Q124.97 .G38 2006
Online resources:
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.