As aforementioned, the author extensively explains the confines of romanticism and mechanism, yet; fails to define considerations of science in the era. This lack of societal context is minor, however; the book is centered in a time period where a shift in perception from natural philosophy where nature was observed and theorized, to contemporary science, where experiments were primarily used to prove a hypothesis. As Tresch states in his introduction, industrialization was a proponent of the transition and as it occurred later in France, disputes on what the technical definition of a scientific consideration may arise and convolute
As aforementioned, the author extensively explains the confines of romanticism and mechanism, yet; fails to define considerations of science in the era. This lack of societal context is minor, however; the book is centered in a time period where a shift in perception from natural philosophy where nature was observed and theorized, to contemporary science, where experiments were primarily used to prove a hypothesis. As Tresch states in his introduction, industrialization was a proponent of the transition and as it occurred later in France, disputes on what the technical definition of a scientific consideration may arise and convolute