Science Deified & Science Defied 2: The Historical Significance of Science in Western Culture 2

Richard Olson's magisterial two-volume work,__Science Deified and Science Defied__asks how, why, to what extent, and with what consequences scientific ideas have influenced Western culture. In Volume 2, Olson turns to Cartesianism and the extension of mathematical and mechanical philosophies that branched into every aspect of seventeenth-century thought. Richard Olson's magisterial two-volume work, Science Deified and Science Defied asks how, why, to what extent, and with what consequences scientific ideas have influenced Western culture. In Volume 2, Olson turns to Cartesianism and the extension of mathematical and mechanical philosophies that branched into every aspect of seventeenth-century thought. This work asks how, why, to what extent, and with what consequences scientific ideas have influenced Western culture. This volume covers Cartesianism and the extension of mathematical and mechanical philosophies that branched into every aspect of 17th-century thought.