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

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

Carolyn Merchant

196 pages first pub 2015 (editions)

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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...

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