The Collapse of Mechanism and the Rise of Sensibility: Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1680-1760
"Especially considered together with the previous volume,Collapseis a remarkable achievement, comparable in ambition and execution to Jonathan Israel's series of volumes on the socio-political side of the Enlightenment. Gaukroger is especially to be thanked for his deft integration of mathematical, metaphysical, theological and empirical issues, which are routinely treated in isolation by commentators though they were never completely distinct in the minds of the most important actors. This is a model for serious intellectual history of science." --Philosophy in Review