[PDF.52jw] The Emergence of a Scientific Culture: Science and the Shaping of Modernity 1210-1685

The Emergence of a Scientific Culture: Science and the Shaping of Modernity 1210-1685

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 | #1201897 in Books |  2009-01-15 |  2009-01-15 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  6.20 x1.20 x9.20l,1.90 | File type: PDF | 576 pages

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||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Scientific Culture Inspired by Religious Culture|By Clay Garner|Gaukroger's writing is clear. He produces simplicity from complexity. His repeated use of meaningful contrast elucidates the material quickly.

The preface explains Gaukroger wants to understand why the "ideal of modeling all cognitive values on scientific ones, which is one of the most distinctive featur| ||"An impressive and wide ranging book.... Gaukroger's grand beginning of an even grander five-volume narrative is an exceptional book. Its structure of scientific authority, as it were, is certain to stimulate long and lively discussions among academics of eve

Why did science emerge in the West and how did scientific values come to be regarded as the yardstick for all other forms of knowledge? Stephen Gaukroger shows just how bitterly the cognitive and cultural standing of science was contested in its early development. Rejecting the traditional picture of secularization, he argues that science in the seventeenth century emerged not in opposition to religion but rather was in many respects driven by it. Moreover, science did n...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.The Emergence of a Scientific Culture: Science and the Shaping of Modernity 1210-1685   |  Stephen Gaukroger. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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