TY - BOOK AU - Gaukroger,Stephen TI - The collapse of mechanism and the rise of sensibility: science and the shaping of modernity, 1680-1760 SN - 978-0-19-959493-1 U1 - 509.409033 23E PY - 2010/// CY - Oxford PB - Clarendon Press KW - Science--Europe--History--17th century KW - Science--Europe--History--18th century KW - Philosophy and science--Europe--History--17th century KW - Philosophy and science--Europe--History--18th century KW - Religion and science--Europe--History--17th century KW - Religion and science--Europe--History--18th century KW - Science and civilization N1 - Bibliogr. p. [454]-491; The construction of a new world picture -- The mathematical principles of natural philosophy -- The metaphysical unity of natural philosophy -- From experimental philosophy to empiricism -- Explaining the phenomena -- Natural philosophy and the republic of letters -- The realm of reason -- The fortunes of a mechanical model for natural philosophy -- Material activity -- Living and dead matter -- The realm of sensibility -- Historical understanding and the human condition ER -