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A panoramic history of rules in the Western worldRules order almost every aspect of our lives. Th...

Why is the scientific community so unified?In the last 350-odd years, the international 'scientif...

Ausgangspunkt dieser zum Standardwerk gewordenen Studie ist ein Kernbegriff der neuzeitlichen Wis...

Der Verweis auf natürliche Ordnungen ist eine Konstante in menschlichen Normsetzungen. Scheinbare...

This book examines the genesis of Lutheran interest in natural philosophical issues by focusing o...

Investigates the philosophical and political significance of Judaism in seventeenth and eighteent...

Arguments about the practice of the duel in early modern England were widespread. Markku Peltonen...

A study of Russell's social and political thought in its intellectual and cultural context.

Using newly discovered material, this book explores the development of Durkheim's social realism.

This book tells how quantitative ideas of chance transformed the natural and social sciences, as ...

An examination of a fundamental aspect of the intellectual history of early modern Europe.

This book provides a comprehensive account of knowledge of the natural world in Europe, c.1500-17...

Between the end of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth centuries, the language of ...

In this important contribution to the cultural and educational history of Elizabethan England, Pe...

This book traces how such a seemingly immutable idea as measurement proved so debatable when it c...

Pluralism and the Personality of the State tells the history of English political thought from 19...

Rival Enlightenments is a major reinterpretation of early modern German intellectual history. Ian...

A wide-ranging collection of studies on Enlightenment and religion in eighteenth-century England.

Wie sind Philosophie und Philosophiegeschichte, Wissenschaftsgeschichte und Wissenschaftstheorie ...

This study examines the development of natural law theories in the early stages of the Enlightenm...

An account of European knowledge of the natural world, c.1500-1700.

What did it mean to be reasonable in the Age of Reason? Classical probabilists from Jakob Bernoul...

This monumental work traces the rise, the transformation, and the diffusion of probabilistic and ...

Anne McLaren explores the consequences for English political culture when, with the accession of ...

While the term 'liberalism' was not applied to political thought or political parties in England ...

A pithy work of philosophical anthropology that explores why humans find moral orders in natural ...

The emergence of objectivity in the mid-nineteenth-century sciences, as revealed through images i...

A rich exploration of how European naturalists used wonder and wonders (oddities and marvels) to ...

Unter dem Begriff 'Kultur' wurde in den letzten Jahren eine intensive Diskussion über die Grenzen...

'Science in the Archives' reveals affinities and continuities among the sciences of the archives,...

Essays examine nine intriguing objects made eloquent when matter and meaning converge.

Essays examine nine intriguing objects made eloquent when matter and meaning converge.

Includes bibliographical referrences and index.

Strukturgeschichte versus Kulturgeschichte, Fakten und Fiktionen: um diese Pole hat sich eine Deb...

Isn't consistency simply another word for intellectual integrity? The fact that actions are incon...

Contra La Naturaleza

'We are, all of us, everywhere, always, enmeshed in a web of rules and constraints. Rules fix the...

Originally a doctoral dissertation submitted to the Department of the History of Science at Harva...

Da sempre - in ogni luogo, epoca e cultura - gli esseri umani hanno chiamato in causa la natura p...