Natural & the Human 1739-1841 Ssm C

by Stephen Gaukroger

Book Overview

Stephen Gaukroger presents an original account of the development of empirical science and the understanding of human behaviour from the mid-eighteenth century. Since the seventeenth century, science in the west has undergone a unique form of cumulative development in which it has been consolidated through integration into and shaping of a culture. But in the eighteenth century, science was cut loose from the legitimating culture in which it had had...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198757638
• ISBN13: 9780198757634
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: Academic
• Length: 412 Pages
• Weight: 1.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.3"