8vo. pp xiii, 402. Large format paperback. Contributors include: Alphonse de Candolle, Dorothy Stimson, Richard Foster Jones, George Rosen, Jean Pelseneer, James W. Carroll, Gary A. Abraham, Harold J. Cook. ISBN: 0813515300 May show some very slight shelf wear but content fine and unread. Excellent condition.

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Title: PURITANISM AND THE RISE OF MODERN SCIENCE: THE MERTON THESIS.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick
Publication Date: 1990
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0813515300
ISBN 13: 9780813515304
Binding: Soft cover
Edition: 1st Edition

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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 become known, about the role of religious values in science provoked great discussion among historians and sociologists of science and religion, and the debate continues today.

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