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Bases de dades: Sciència.cat
Hadden, Richard W., On the Shoulders of Merchants: exchange and the mathematical conception of nature in eraly modern Europe, Albany, State University of New York Press (SUNY series in science, technology, and society), 1994, xviii + 191 pp.
- Resum
- This book shows how the universal quantification of science resulted from the routinization of commercial practices that were familiar in scientist's daily lives. Following the work of Franz Borkenau and Jacob Klein in the 1930s, the book describes the rise of the mechanistic world-view as a reification of relations of exchange in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Critical of more orthodox, positivist Marxist accounts of the rise of science, it argues that commercial reckoners, in keeping with the social relations in which their activity took place, delivered a new mathematical object, “general magnitude,” to the new mechanics. The book is an historical extension of the sociology of scientific knowledge and develops and refines themes found in the work of Alfred Sohn-Rethel and Gideon Freudenthal.
- Matèries
- Aritmètica i geometria
Matemàtica
Història de la ciència
Història - Economia
Tècniques - Mercaderia
- Notes
- Recensions:
* Serafina Cuomo, The British Journal for the History of Science, 28/4 (1995), 463-464. URL: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstrac ... 
* Peter Vandergeest, The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, 21/2 (1996), 273-275. URL: http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/3341987?uid=3 ...
- URL
- http://books.google.es/books/about/On_the_Shoulders ...
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