The emergence of a scientific culture : science and the shaping of modernity, 1210-1685 / Stephen Gaukroger.
By: Gaukroger, Stephen
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Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press 2006Description: ix, 563 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780199296446 (hbk.); 0199296448 (hbk.).Subject(s): Science -- Europe -- History | Philosophy and science -- Europe -- History | Religion and science -- Europe -- History | Science and civilizationDDC classification: 509.40902 | Item type | Current location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | Remark |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [510]-550) and index.
Introduction. - Part I. - 1. Science and modernity. - Part II. - 2. From Augustinian synthesis to Aristotelian amalgam. 3. Renaissance natural philosophies. 4. The interpretation of nature and the origins of physico-theolog. - Part III. - 5. Reconstructing natural philosophy. - 6. Reconstructing the natural philosopher 7. The aims of enquiry. - Part IV. - 8. Corpuscularianism and the rise of mechanism. - 9. The scope of mechanism. - 10. Experimental natural philosoph. - 11. The quantitative transformation of natural philosophy Part V. - 12. The unity of knowledge.