Civilization and the Culture of Science: Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1795-1935

ISBN-13: 9780198849070 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 544 str.

Stephen Gaukroger

Recenzje

This is a remarkable work of scholarship and the fifty-page bibliography is a testament to the author's breadth of knowledge and reading, which forms the scientific basis for his outstanding contribution to the field.

O autorze

Stephen Gaukroger, who was educated at the University of London and the University of Cambridge, is Emeritus Professor of History of Philosophy and History of Science at the University of Sydney. He is author of fourteen books and the editor of nine collections of essays. His recent publications include The Emergence of a Scientific Culture: Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1210-1685 (Oxford 2006), The Collapse of Mechanism and the Rise of Sensibility: Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1680-1760 (Oxford 2010), and The Natural and the Human: Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1739-1841 (Oxford 2016). His work has been translated into Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Russian.