The Emergence of a Scientific Culture - Science and the Shaping of Modernity 1210-1685
by Gaukroger, Stephen
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- Hardcover
- first
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- New in New dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0199296448
- ISBN 13
- 9780199296446
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About This Item
Oxford University Press. New in New dust jacket. 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. 0199296448 . This specific hardback book is in new condition with a hard board cover that has sharp edges and corners and has a tight binding. The pages are clean, crisp, unmarked and uncreased. The dust jacket is in new condition with no discernible wear. We package all books in custom cardboard book boxes for shipment and ship daily with tracking numbers.; "The West's sense of itself, its relation to its past, and its sense of its future, have been profoundly altered since the seventeenth century, as cognitive values generally have gradually come to be shaped around scientific ones. Science has not merely brought a new set of such values to the task of understanding the world and our place in it, but rather has completely transformed the task, redefining the goals of enquiry. This distinctive feature of the development of a scientific culture in the West marks it out from other scientifically productive cultures. In The Emergence of a Scientific Culture, Stephen Gaukroger offers a detailed and comprehensive account of the formative stages of this development--and one which challenges the received wisdom that science was seen to be self-evidently the correct path to knowledge and that the benefits of science were immediately obvious to the disinterested observer."; 9.25 X 1.81 X 6.53 inches; 572 pages .
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [510]-550) and index
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- 27672
- Title
- The Emergence of a Scientific Culture - Science and the Shaping of Modernity 1210-1685
- Author
- Gaukroger, Stephen
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New New in New dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0199296448
- ISBN 13
- 9780199296446
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- 2006. 576p. Hardback. Gaukroger's Book Is A Historical Reconstruction That Brackets Historical Context (social
- Date Published
- 2007
- Keywords
- 0199296448, Scientific Culture, Shaping of Modernity, Human Development, Cultural Development, Scientific Revolution
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