The Scientific Revolution by Steven Shapin

The Scientific Revolution by Steven Shapin

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The Scientific Revolution by Steven Shapin

This work contains Steven Shapin's historical exploration into the origins of the modern scientific worldview. What historians have traditionally called the Scientific Revolution was, in Shapin's view, a diversity of practices and ideas, developed over the course of nearly two centuries.
Shapin, Steven: - Steven Shapin is the Franklin L. Ford Professor of the History of Science at Harvard, and his books include Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life (with Simon Schaffer), A Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century England, and The Scientific Revolution. He has written for the New Yorker and writes regularly for the London Review of Books.
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ISBN 13 9780226750200
ISBN 10 0226750205
Title The Scientific Revolution
Author Steven Shapin
Series Science Culture Ser
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Binding Type Hardback
Publisher The University of Chicago Press
Year published 1996-11-15
Number of pages 232
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