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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Social and Economic Roots of the Scientific Revolution
    sub title: Texts by Boris Hessen and Henryk Grossmann
  name:
    name part: Freudenthal, Gideon.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: McLaughlin, Peter.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2009
    edition: 1.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XI, 273 p. online resource.
  abstract: 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 They are of course also historical documents, not only testifying to Marxist discourse of the time but also illustrating typical European fates in the ?rst half of the twentieth century. Hessen was born a Jewish subject of the Russian Czar in the Ukraine, participated in the October Revolution and was executed in the Soviet Union at the beginning of the purges. Grossmann was born a Jewish subject of the Austro-Hungarian Kaiser in Poland and served as an Austrian of?cer in the First World War; afterwards he was forced to return to Poland and then because of his revolutionary political activities to emigrate to Germany; with the rise to power of the Nazis he had to ?ee to France and then Americawhilehisfamily,whichremainedinEurope,perishedinNaziconcentration camps. Our own acquaintance with the work of these two authors is also indebted to historical context (under incomparably more fortunate circumstances): the revival of Marxist scholarship in Europe in the wake of the student movement and the p- fessionalization of history of science on the Continent. We hope that under the again very different conditions of the early twenty-?rst century these texts will contribute to the further development of a philosophically informed socio-historical approach to the study of science.
  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.
  note: edited by Gideon Freudenthal, Peter McLaughlin.
  subject:
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Science
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy and science
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy and social sciences
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: History of Science
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy of Science
  subject:
    topic: Science, general
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy of the Social Sciences
  subject:
    topic: History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics
  classification: D1-DX301
  classification: 509
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      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science ; 278
  identifier: 9781402096044
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9604-4
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