The Social and Economic Roots of the Scientific Revolution Texts by Boris Hessen and Henryk Grossmann /

The volume collects classics of Marxist historiography of science, including a new translation of Boris Hessens The Social and Economic Roots of Newtons Principia (1931), Henryk Grossmanns The Social Foundation of Mechanistic Philosophy and Manufacture (1935) and his Descartes New Ideal of S...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Freudenthal, Gideon. (Editor), McLaughlin, Peter. (Editor)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
Edition:1.
Series:Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science ; 278
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