Emergence of a Scientific Culture - Science and the Shaping of Modernity 1210-1685

Zusatztext [A] substantial and impressive book...I am not aware of any other treatment of these themes that combines so magisterially a discerning account of changing boundaries between disciplines with a dispassionate analysis of the changing relations between theology and the sciences. The result is a scholarly exploration on the grand scale. Informationen zum Autor Stephen Gaukroger has a BA (Philosophy) from the University of London and a Ph.D (History and Philosophy of Science) from the University of Cambridge. He was Research Fellow in the Philosophy of Science, Clare Hall, Cambridge, 1977-1978; Research Fellow, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Melbourne, 1978-1980. Since 1981 he has been in the Philosophy Department at the University of Sydney where he is currently Professor of History of Philosophy and History of Science. Klappentext Stephen Gaukroger shows that science was bitterly contested during the early modern period. It did not distance itself from religion but rather entered into an alliance with it to provide a comprehensive picture of the world - transforming not just science but also religion in the process. Zusammenfassung Stephen Gaukroger shows that science was bitterly contested during the early modern period. It did not distance itself from religion but rather entered into an alliance with it to provide a comprehensive picture of the world - transforming not just science but also religion in the process.

Product details

• Authors: Stephen Gaukroger, Stephen (University of Sydney) Gaukroger, Gaukroger Stephen
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.10.2008
• EAN: 9780199550012
• ISBN: 978-0-19-955001-2
• No. of pages: 576
• Series: Science and the Shaping of Modernity; Science and the Shaping of Mod
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; PHILOSOPHY / Religious, SCIENCE / History, RELIGION / History, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, RELIGION / Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, History of Religion, History of Science, Philosophy of religion