Puritanism & Rise of Science

by I. Bernard Cohen

Book Overview

Fifty years ago, Robert K. Merton published 'Science, Technology and Society in Seventeenth Century England,' demonstrating quantitatively that Puritans and other ascetic Protestants were disproportionately well represented among the new scientific community of England. He argued that, for these scientists, the Puritan ethic 'was at once a direct expression of dominant values and an independent source of new motivation.' The Merton Thesis, as it has...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813515297
• ISBN13: 9780813515298
• Release Date: August 1990
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 402 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.