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<br> Especially considered together with the previous volume, Collapse is a remarkable achievement, comparable in ambition and execution to Jonathan Israel's series of volumes on the socio-political side of the Enlightenment. Gaukroger is especially to be thanked for his deft integration of mathematical, metaphysical, theological and empirical issues, which are routinely treated in isolation by commentators though they were never completely distinct in the minds of the most important actors. This is a model for serious intellectual history of science. --Philosophy in Review<p><br>

It is impressively scholarly, interesting, and will no doubt take its place as an important contribution to the field of intellectual history. Kurt Smith, MIND

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Stephen Gaukroger was educated at London and Cambridge Universities. He is presently Professor of History of Philosophy and History of Science at the University of Sydney, where he also holds an ARC Professorial Research Fellowship, and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen. He is author of seven books in the history of science and history of philosophy, including an intellectual biography of Descartes, as well as translations of the works of Descartes and Arnauld, and is editor of six collections of essays.

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