{"product_id":"the-natural-and-the-human-science-and-the-shaping-of-modernity-1739-1841-9780198757634","title":"The Natural and the Human: Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1739-1841","description":"Stephen Gaukroger presents an original account of the development of empirical science and the understanding of human behaviour 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 through integration into and shaping of a culture. But in the eighteenth century, science was cut loose from the legitimating culture in which it had had a public rationale as a fruitful\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Stephen Gaukroger\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/21\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 412\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.54lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.00w x 1.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198757634\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eStephen Gaukroger\u003c\/strong\u003e, who was educated at London and Cambridge Universities, is Emeritus Professor of History of Philosophy and History of Science at the University of Sydney. He is author of nine books in the history of science and history of philosophy, including an intellectual biography of Descartes, as well as translations of the works of Descartes and Arnauld. \u003cem\u003eThe Emergence of a Scientific Culture: Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1210-1685\u003c\/em\u003e, was published in 2006, and \u003cem\u003eThe Collapse of Mechanism and the Rise of Sensibility: Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1680-1760\u003c\/em\u003e, was published in 2010. His work has been translated into Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, and Serbian.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45267794919539,"sku":"9780198757634","price":151.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_68377357-de1b-4960-80f7-9e64b31c8102.jpg?v=1784637574","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/the-natural-and-the-human-science-and-the-shaping-of-modernity-1739-1841-9780198757634","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}