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 / edited by Gideon Freudenthal, Peter McLaughlin.

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 They are of course also historical documents, not only testifying to Marxist discourse of the...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Freudenthal, Gideon (Editor), McLaughlin, Peter (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2009.
Edition:1st ed. 2009.
Series:Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 278
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
History.
Philosophy and science.
Philosophy and social sciences.
Physics.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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