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

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 o...

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Science and the shaping of modernity, 1210-1685
1. Verfasser:
Gaukroger, Stephen
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Oxford : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 2006.
Zusammenfassung:
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 aunified picture of nature but was an unstable field of different, often locally successful but just as often inco
Umfang:
1 online resource (ix, 563 pages) : illustrations
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Description based upon print version of record.
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English
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
0-19-955001-8
1-280-75634-9
9786610756346
0-19-156391-9
0-19-153789-6
1-4356-2297-9
Schlagworte:
Philosophy and science > Europe > History.
Religion and science > Europe > History.
Science and civilization.
Science > Europe > History.
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