The natural and the human : science and the shaping of modernity, 1739-1841 / Stephen Gaukroger.

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Stephen Gaukroger presents an original account of the development of empirical science and the understanding of human behavior from the mid-eighteenth century. Since the seventeenth century, science in the west has undergone a unique form of cumulative development in which it has been consolidated t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gaukroger, Stephen (Author)
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Science > Europe > History > 18th century.
Science > history.
Natural History > history.
Behavior.
Religion och vetenskap.
Filosofi och naturvetenskap.
Vetenskap > historia.
Science.
Europe.
1700-talet
1800-talet
1700-1799
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:viii, 402 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book
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