The social and economic roots of the scientific revolution : texts by Boris Hessen and Henryk Grossmann

The social and economic roots of the scientific revolution texts by Boris Hessen and Henryk Grossmann

The texts of Boris Hessen and Henryk Grossmann assembled in this volume are important contributions to the historiography of the Scientific Revolution and to the methodology of the historiography of science. They are of course also historical documents, not only testifying to Marxist discourse of th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Freudenthal, Gideon (-), Grossmann, Henryk, 1881-1950, Hessen, Boris, McLaughlin, Peter
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Dordrecht] : Springer 2009.
Edición:1st ed. 2009.
Colección:Boston studies in the philosophy of science ; v. 278.
Materias:
Grossmann, Henryk, > 1881-1950.
Hessen, Boris.
Science > Historiography.
Science > History.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009455016906719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Classical Marxist Historiography of Science: The Hessen-Grossmann-Thesis
  • The Social and Economic Roots of Newton’s Principia
  • The Social Foundations of the Mechanistic Philosophy and Manufacture
  • Descartes and the Social Origins of the Mechanistic Concept of the World
  • Additional Texts on Mechanism
  • Henryk Grossman: A Biographical Sketch
  • Boris Hessen: In Lieu of a Biography.

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