The Social and Economic Roots of the Scientific Revolution

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The Social and Economic Roots of the Scientific Revolution

Exploring the Limits of Preclassical Mechanics

The question of when and how the basic concepts that characterize modern science arose in Western...

The Social and Economic Roots of the Scientific Revolution

Inhaltsangabe1. Historical and systematic introduction by the editors, 2. Boris Hessen, 'The Soci...