The natural and the human science and the shaping of modernity, 1739-1841 /
Stephen Gaukroger presents an original account of the development of science and our understanding of ourselves during a period which saw a fundamental shift in how the role of science was understood. At the core of the shift, he argues, lay the aim of understanding human behaviour and motivations i...
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Main Author: | Gaukroger, Stephen, |
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Other Authors: | Oxford Scholarship Online. |
Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
Published: |
Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2016.
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Physical Description: |
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white) |
Edition: | First edition. |
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