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711782
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b533971
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Gaukroger, Stephen.
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| Title & Author
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The collapse of mechanism and the rise of sensibility : : science and the shaping of modernity, 1680-1760 /\ Stephen Gaukroger
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| Publication Statement
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Oxford :: Clarendon Press ;New York :: Oxford University Press,, 2010
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1 online resource (ix, 505 pages) :: illustrations
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019161646X (electronic bk.)
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: 0199594937
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: 9780191616464 (electronic bk.)
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: 9780199594931
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [454]-491) and index
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| Contents
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The construction of a new world picture. The completeness of natural philosophy ; A new metaphysics ; Physico-theology ; The rationalization of religion -- The mathematical principles of natural philosophy. From Principia philosophiae to Principia mathematica ; The structure of Newton's Principia ; Gravitation : matter theory versus mechanics -- The metaphysical unity of natural philosophy. Leibniz and the unity of knowledge ; The role of metaphysics ; Leibnizian dynamics ; Demonstration : geometry versus analysis ; Phenomenalism and the rise of rational mechanics -- From experimental philosophy to empiricism. The vindication of experimental philosophy ; The origins of Locke's Essay ; Natural philosophy and primary qualities ; Locke and the defence of Newton -- Explaining the phenomena. The "Nature" of species ; The "nature" of electricity ; The "nature" of metals ; Causation and explanation -- Natural philosophy and the republic of letters. The Académie des Sciences and the republic of letters ; Vortices, attraction, and the shape of the Earth -- The realm of reason. The birth of the Philosophe ; The Encyclopédie ; Reason and the unity of knowledge -- The fortunes of a mechanical model for natural philosophy. Explanatory models and the unity of natural philosophy ; Mechanics as a priori discipline ; The limits of mechanics -- Material activity. The resurgence of an autonomous matter theory ; Electrified matter ; The chemistry of fluids and sympathies -- Living and dead matter. Matter and activity ; A developmental history of the world -- The realm of sensibility. From sensibility to sensibilism ; Physiological sensitivity ; Moral sensibility ; The unity of sensibility -- Historical understanding and the human condition. The history of manners ; From myth to reason ; Reason and sensibility ; The varieties of understanding
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How did we come to have a scientific culture, one in which cognitive values are shaped around scientific ones? Stephen Gaukroger presents a rich and fascinating investigation of the development of intellectual culture in early modern Europe, a period in which understandings of the natural realm began to fragment
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Philosophy and science-- Europe-- History-- 17th century.
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Philosophy and science-- Europe-- History-- 18th century.
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Religion and science-- Europe-- History-- 17th century.
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Religion and science-- Europe-- History-- 18th century.
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Science and civilization.
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Science-- Europe-- History-- 17th century.
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Science-- Europe-- History-- 18th century.
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509.409033
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Q127.E8G37 2010
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Ohio Library and Information Network.
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