How did science come to have such a central place in Western culture? How did cognitive valuesand subsequently moral, political, and social onescome to be modelled around scientific values? In Civilization and the Culture of Science, Stephen Gaukroger explores how these values w…
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…
How did science come to have such a central place in Western culture? How did our ways of thinking, and our moral, political, and social values, come to be modelled around scientific values? Stephen Gaukroger traces the story of how these values developed, and how they influence…
[This book] is a ... reflection on the nature of historical and scientific knowledge. [The book] offers a compelling framework for understanding history, science, and man's capacity for self-knowledge. In [the book, the author] describes how we in the Western world have now been…
At the End of an Age is a deeply informed and rewarding reflection on the nature of historical and scientific knowledge. Of extraordinary philosophical, religious, and historical scope, it is the product of a great historian's lifetime of thought on the subject of his discipline…
"At the End of an Age is a reflection on the nature of historical and scientific knowledge. Of extraordinary philosophical, religious, and historical scope, it is the product of a great historian's lifetime of thought on the subject of his discipline and the human condition. Whi…
Traces the origins of many of the world's most significant scientific and technological achievements to ancient and medieval China, looking at nine subject areas, including agriculture, astronomy and cartography, engineering, medicine and health, magnetism, sound and music, and …
