Autonomous Nature: Problems of Prediction and Control From Ancient Times to the Scientific Revolution

by Carolyn Merchant

Book Overview

Autonomous Nature investigates the history of nature as an active, often unruly force in tension with nature as a rational, logical order from ancient times to the Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century. Along with subsequent advances in mechanics, hydrodynamics, thermodynamics, and electromagnetism, nature came to be perceived as an orderly, rational, physical world that could be engineered, controlled, and managed. Autonomous Nature focuses...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138931004
• ISBN13: 9781138931008
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"