The Collapse of Mechanism and the Rise of Sensibility —— Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1680-1760

----- 崩溃的机制和不断增长的情感:科学与现代性塑造，1680-1760

ISBN: 9780199594931 出版年：2011 页码：516 Gaukroger, Stephen Oxford University Press

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.