Why did science emerge in the West and how did scientific values come to be regarded as the yardstick for all other forms of knowledge? Stephen Gaukroger shows

'The Emergence of a Scientific Culture' shows that science was bitterly contested during the early modern period. Rejecting the traditional picture of seculariz

How did science come to have such a central place in Western culture? How did our ways of thinking, and our moral, political, and social values, come to be mode

Stephen Gaukroger presents an original account of the development of empirical science and the understanding of human behaviour from the mid-eighteenth century.

How did we come to have a scientific culture -- one in which cognitive values are shaped around scientific ones? Stephen Gaukroger presents a rich and fascinati