9780198801603-0198801602-The Natural and the Human: Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1739-1841

The Natural and the Human: Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1739-1841

ISBN-13: 9780198801603
ISBN-10: 0198801602
Edition: Reprint
Author: Stephen Gaukroger
Publication date: 2018
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback 416 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780198801603
ISBN-10: 0198801602
Edition: Reprint
Author: Stephen Gaukroger
Publication date: 2018
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback 416 pages

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The Natural and the Human: Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1739-1841 (ISBN-13: 9780198801603 and ISBN-10: 0198801602), written by authors Stephen Gaukroger, was published by Oxford University Press in 2018. With an overall rating of 3.8 stars, it's a notable title among other History & Philosophy (Modern, Philosophy) books. You can easily purchase or rent The Natural and the Human: Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1739-1841 (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used History & Philosophy books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $1.27.

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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 a public rationale as a fruitful

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