The collapse of mechanism and the rise of sensibility
Subtitle: science and the shaping of modernity, 1680-1760
By: Stephen Gaukroger
Publisher: Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 505
ISBN-13: 9780199594931
Subjects: Religion and science; Science; Philosophy and science; Science and civilization; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [454]-491) and index.
Table of contents: title: The construction of a new world picture; title: The mathematical principles of natural philosophy; title: The metaphysical unity of natural philosophy; title: From experimental philosophy to empiricism; title: Explaining the phenomena; title: Natural philosophy and the republic of letters; title: The realm of reason; title: The fortunes of a mechanical model for natural philosophy; title: Material activity; title: Living and dead matter; title: The realm of sensibility; title: Historical understanding and the human condition.