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The Social and Economic Roots of the Scientific Revolution: Texts by Boris Hessen and Henryk Grossman

The Social and Economic Roots of the Scientific Revolution: Texts by Boris Hessen and Henryk... 364 Book Reviews / Early Science and Medicine 16 (2011) 352-378 © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2011 DOI: 10.1163/157338211X585911 Gideon Freudenthal & Peter McLaughlin, e Social and Economic Roots of the Scien- tific Revolution: Texts by Boris Hessen and Henryk Grossman (Boston: Springer, 2009), pp. 400, $189.00 (cloth), ISBN 978 1 4020 9603 7. e Social and Economic Roots of the Scientific Revolution offers a passionate defense and an interpretation of the work of two Marxist historians of science. As Freudenthal and McLaughlin point out in a prefatory letter, Boris Hessen and Henryk Grossman, both Jews, suffered at the hands of the Soviets and the Nazis. Freudenthal and McLaughlin argue that due to such misfortune and to Cold War knee-jerk anti- Marxism, their work has not received the attention it deserves, even though it presaged many current trends in the history of science. e present volume attempts to make their ideas available for fresh consideration through new translations. It has seven parts: an introduction by Gideon Freudenthal and Peter McLaughlin, “Classical Marxist Historiography of Science: e Hessen- Grossman-esis,” four selections from the work of Boris Hessen and Henryk Gross- man, a short biographical sketch of Grossman by Rick http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Early Science and Medicine Brill

The Social and Economic Roots of the Scientific Revolution: Texts by Boris Hessen and Henryk Grossman

Early Science and Medicine , Volume 16 (4): 364 – Jan 1, 2011

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© 2011 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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1383-7427
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1573-3823
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10.1163/157338211X585911
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364 Book Reviews / Early Science and Medicine 16 (2011) 352-378 © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2011 DOI: 10.1163/157338211X585911 Gideon Freudenthal & Peter McLaughlin, e Social and Economic Roots of the Scien- tific Revolution: Texts by Boris Hessen and Henryk Grossman (Boston: Springer, 2009), pp. 400, $189.00 (cloth), ISBN 978 1 4020 9603 7. e Social and Economic Roots of the Scientific Revolution offers a passionate defense and an interpretation of the work of two Marxist historians of science. As Freudenthal and McLaughlin point out in a prefatory letter, Boris Hessen and Henryk Grossman, both Jews, suffered at the hands of the Soviets and the Nazis. Freudenthal and McLaughlin argue that due to such misfortune and to Cold War knee-jerk anti- Marxism, their work has not received the attention it deserves, even though it presaged many current trends in the history of science. e present volume attempts to make their ideas available for fresh consideration through new translations. It has seven parts: an introduction by Gideon Freudenthal and Peter McLaughlin, “Classical Marxist Historiography of Science: e Hessen- Grossman-esis,” four selections from the work of Boris Hessen and Henryk Gross- man, a short biographical sketch of Grossman by Rick

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Published: Jan 1, 2011

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