The Emergence Of A Scientific Culture: Science And The Shaping Of Modernity, 1210-1685 by Stephen Gaukroger

The Emergence Of A Scientific Culture: Science And The Shaping Of Modernity, 1210-1685

Stephen Gaukroger

563 pages first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction history science challenging informative slow-paced
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Why did science emerge in the West and how did scientific values come to be regarded as the yardstick for all other forms of knowledge? Stephen Gaukroger shows just how bitterly the cognitive and cultural standing of science was contested in its e...

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