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

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Freudenthal, Gideon (Editor), McLaughlin, Peter (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
• Edition: 1.
• Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science ; 278
• Subjects: History.; Science.; Philosophy and science.; Philosophy and social sciences.; Physics.; History of Science.; Philosophy of Science.; Science, general.; Philosophy of the Social Sciences.; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.

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 They are of course also historical documents, not only testifying to Marxist discourse of the...

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.