The social and economic roots of the scientific revolution : texts by Boris Hessen and Henryk Grossmann / edited by Gideon Freudenthal, Peter McLaughlin.

[Dordrecht] : Springer, 2009.

xi, 273 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Classical Marxist historiography of science : the Hessen-Grossmann-thesis / Gideon Freudenthal and Peter McLaughlin -- The social and economic roots of Newton's Principia / Boris Hessen -- The social foundations of the mechanistic philosophy and manufacture / Henryk Grossmann -- Descartes and the social origins of the mechanistic concept of the world / Henryk Grossmann -- Additional texts on mechanism / Henryk Grossmann -- Henryk Grossman : a biographical sketch / Rick Kuhn -- Boris Hessen : in lieu of a biography / Gideon Freudenthal and Peter McLaughlin.

Includes bibliographical references and index.