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 They are of course also historical documents, not only testifying to Marxist discourse...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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[Dordrecht] :
Springer,
[2009]
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| Series: | Boston studies in the philosophy of science ;
v. 278. |
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| Online Access: | Springer eBooks |
Table of Contents:
- Classical Marxist Historiography of Science: The Hessen-Grossmann-Thesis / Gideon Freudenthal, Peter McLaughlin
- The Social and Economic Roots of Newton’s Principia / Boris Hessen
- The Social Foundations of the Mechanistic Philosophy and Manufacture / Henryk Grossmann
- Descartes and the Social Origins of the Mechanistic Concept of the World / Henryk Grossmann
- Additional Texts on Mechanism / Henryk Grossmann
- Henryk Grossman: A Biographical Sketch / Rick Kuhn
- Boris Hessen: In Lieu of a Biography / Gideon Freudenthal, Peter McLaughlin.