Civilization and the Culture of Science: Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1795-1935
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How did science come to have such a central place in Western culture? How did cognitive values--and subsequently moral, political, and social ones--come to be modelled around scientific values? In Civilization and the Culture of Science, Stephen Gaukroger explores how these values were shaped and how they began, in turn, to shape those of society. The core nineteenth- and twentieth-century development is that in which science comes to take centre...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0192866281
ISBN13:9780192866288
Release Date:June 2022
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Length:544 Pages
Weight:1.57 lbs.
Dimensions:1.6" x 6.0" x 9.1"
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