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According to Wikipedia, Stephen Gaukroger was a British historian of philosophy and science who spent the majority of his academic career in Australia. Gaukroger was Emeritus Professor of History of Philosophy and History of Science at the University of Sydney.

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Descartes: An Intellectual Biography (1996) (330)
The Scientific Revolution: A Historiographical Inquiry (1994) (158)
The Emergence of a Scientific Culture (2006) (133)
Francis Bacon and the Transformation of Early-Modern Philosophy (2001) (105)
The emergence of a scientific culture : science and the shaping of modernity, 1210-1685 (2006) (101)
The Treatise on Man (1972) (93)
Descartes : philosophy, mathematics and physics (1980) (87)
The Collapse of Mechanism and the Rise of Sensibility: Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1680-1760 (2010) (84)
Descartes' System of Natural Philosophy (2002) (83)
Descartes' natural philosophy (2000) (74)
The Uses of Antiquity (1991) (65)
The World and Other Writings: Index (1998) (58)
Cartesian Logic: An Essay on Descartes's Conception of Inference (1989) (53)
The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy (2010) (53)
The Philosopher in Early Modern Europe: The Nature of a Contested Identity (2006) (53)
The hydrostatic paradox and the origins of Cartesian dynamics (2002) (48)
The World and Other Writings: Cambridge texts in the history of philosophy (1998) (41)
The Soft Underbelly of Reason: The Passions in the Seventeenth Century (1998) (39)
How Modern Science Came into the World. Four Civilizations, One 17th Century Breakthrough (2014) (35)
Objectivity: A Very Short Introduction (2012) (33)
Bachelard and the problem of epistemological analysis (1976) (30)
The Metaphysics of Impenetrability: Euler's Conception of force (1982) (30)
The Blackwell guide to Descartes' meditations (2006) (29)
On True and False Ideas (1992) (27)
The uses of antiquity : the scientific revolution and the classical tradition (1991) (27)
Aristotle on the function of sense perception. (1981) (22)
The Role of Matter Theory in Baconian and Cartesian Cosmologies (2000) (19)
The Continuous and the Discrete: Ancient Physical Theories from a Contemporary Perspective (1993) (19)
The Blackwell Guide to Descartes' Meditations: Gaukroger/Blackwell (2008) (18)
The ten modes of aenesidemus and the myth of ancient scepticism (1995) (18)
Pierre Gassendi and the Birth of Early Modern Philosophy (2007) (17)
Dominion over nature (2001) (16)
Natural Science and the Origins of the British Empire (2009) (15)
The nature of abstract reasoning: philosophical aspects of Descartes’ work in algebra (1992) (14)
The End of Modernity: Nihilism and Hermeneutics in Post-modern Culture (review) (2011) (14)
Empiricism as a Development of Experimental Natural Philosophy (2014) (13)
Science and the Shaping of Modernity (2020) (12)
A ristotle on Intelligible Matter (1980) (11)
Explanatory Structures: A Study of Concepts of Explanation in Early Physics and Philosophy (1978) (11)
The Natural and the Human: Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1739-1841 (2016) (11)
Science, religion and modernity (2005) (9)
The persona of the natural philosopher (2006) (8)
Descartes's Early Doctrine of Clear and Distinct Ideas (1992) (8)
The World and Other Writings: Description of the Human Body (1998) (7)
Vico and the maker’s knowledge principle (2018) (7)
Descartes' Treatise on Man and Its Reception (2016) (7)
Pliny's Encyclopedia: The Reception of the Natural History (2011) (7)
The Autonomy of Natural Philosophy (2005) (7)
Seized by the spirit of modern science (1997) (7)
Descartes and Cartesianism: Essays in Honour of Desmond Clarke (2017) (6)
Ruth Hagengruber, ed. , Emilie du Châtelet between Newton and Leibniz . Reviewed by (2012) (6)
Civilization and the Culture of Science (2020) (6)
The World and Other Writings: The Treatise on Light (1998) (5)
Romanticism and decommodification: Marx's conception of socialism (1986) (5)
Experimental Natural Philosophy (2006) (5)
Romanticism and Language (2012) (4)
The Role of Natural Philosophy in the Development of Locke's Empiricism (2009) (4)
The One and The Many: Aristotle on The Individuation of Numbers (1982) (4)
Justification, truth, and the development of science (1998) (4)
Kant and the nature of matter: Mechanics, chemistry, and the life sciences. (2016) (4)
The Unity of Natural Philosophy and the End of Scientia (2010) (4)
Spinoza’s Physics (Lemmata Following 2P13) (2011) (3)
Undercontextualization and Overcontextualization in the History of Science (2016) (3)
Imagined civilizations: China, the west and their first encounter (2016) (3)
Knowledge, Evidence and Method (2006) (3)
The Philosopher in Early Modern Europe: Introduction (2006) (2)
Absolute or Relative Motion? A Study from the Machian point of view of the discovery and structure of dynamical theories: Volume 1: The Discovery of Dynamics (1992) (2)
M. Dummett, Frege: Philosophy of Language, 2nd edition (London: Duckworth, 1981).M. Dummett, The Interpretation of Frege's Philosophy (London: Duckworth, 1981). (1983) (2)
Life and Works (2008) (2)
The Early Modern Idea of Scientific Doctrine and Its Early Christian Origins (2014) (2)
Mind , Mathematics and the Ignorabimusstreit (2007) (2)
The Realm of Sensibility (2010) (2)
Birjandi: ҁ Abd al- ҁ Alī ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-Birjandi (2014) (2)
Bateson, Frank Maine (2007) (2)
The Logic and Methodology of Science in Early Modern Thought: Seven Studies (2004) (2)
The Académie des Sciences and the Republic of Letters: Fontenelle’s Role in the Shaping of a New Natural‐Philosophical Persona, 1699–1734 (2008) (2)
Descartes on Seeing: Epistemology and Visual Perception (1996) (2)
THE HISTORICAL AIMS OF SCIENCE (2002) (2)
The World and Other Writings: Introduction (1998) (2)
The Fortunes of a Mechanical Model for Natural Philosophy (2010) (1)
Descartes' theory of perceptual cognition and the question of moral sensibility (2010) (1)
The Construction of a New World Picture (2010) (1)
Melancholia and the Passions 1643–1650 (1997) (1)
From Experimental Philosophy to Empiricism (2010) (1)
Descartes' System of Natural Philosophy: Before the Principia (2002) (1)
Beyond Reality: Nietzsche’ S Science of Appearances (1999) (1)
The Unity of Science and the Search for a Unity of Understanding in the Modern Era (2017) (1)
Peter Harrison, The Fall of Man and the Foundations of Science . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. xi+300. ISBN 978-0-521-87559-2. £50.00 (hardback). (2009) (1)
Language and Enlightenment: The Berlin Debates of the Eighteenth Century (2014) (1)
Explaining the Phenomena (2010) (1)
Studies on Locke: Sources, Contemporaries, and Legacy (2010) (1)
The Genealogy of Knowledge (2018) (1)
The Discovery and Consolidation of a Scientific Culture in the West in the Modern Era (2013) (1)
DANIEL GARBER and MICHAEL AYERS (eds.), The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Philosophy, 2 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xvii+1616. ISBN 0-521-58864-2. £90.00 (set). (1999) (1)
The Failures of Philosophy (2020) (1)
Longue Durée History: Science to the Rescue? (2019) (1)
Objectivity, History of (2001) (1)
Reconstructing the Natural Philosopher (2006) (1)
Introduction: Kant and the empirical sciences. (2016) (1)
Book Review:Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz: The Concept of Substance in Seventeenth-Century Metaphysics R. S. Woolhouse (1995) (1)
What Does History Matter to the History of Philosophy (2011) (1)
Cartesianism and Visual Cognition (2017) (1)
The Defence of Natural Philosophy 1640–1644 (1997) (0)
Introduction (2020) (0)
ҁAlī al-Muwaqqit: Muṣliḥ al-Dīn Muṣṭafā ibn ҁAlī al-Qusṭanṭīnī al-Rūmī al-Ḥanafī al-Muwaqqit (2014) (0)
Technology and the Limits of Scientific Theorizing (2020) (0)
8 Conclusion (1971) (0)
Enlightenment sensibilism and its implications for the persona of the philosopher in the mid-eighteenth century: some first thoughts (2006) (0)
4. Post-Revolutionary philosophy (2020) (0)
The unity of knowledge: natural-philosophical foundations of Spinoza's politico-theology (2009) (0)
6. Restless times (2020) (0)
1. Introduction: the varieties of objectivity (2012) (0)
Author’s response: the naturalization of the human and the humanization of nature (2017) (0)
The Unity of the Physical Sciences (2020) (0)
It Makes Sense (1987) (0)
Alexandre Koyré and the History of Science as a Species of the History of Philosophy: The Cases of Galileo and Descartes (2018) (0)
Before Boas: the genesis of ethnography and ethnology in the German Enlightenment, by Han F. Vermeulen (2017) (0)
Sensibility and Metaphysics: Diderot, Hume, Baumgarten, and Herder (2013) (0)
The Promotion of Unification (2020) (0)
Descartes’ Conception of Inference (1988) (0)
7. Objectivity in numbers (2012) (0)
Science and the Shape of Orthodoxy: Studies of Intellectual Change in Late 17th-Century Britain (1997) (0)
The Autonomy of the Life Sciences (2020) (0)
The Search for Method 1619–1625 (1997) (0)
Picturability and Mathematical Ideals of Knowledge (2011) (0)
Essay Review: Science and Matter: Scientific Materialism in Nineteenth Century Germany (1979) (0)
Beyond reality: Nietzsche’s science of appearances (2018) (0)
L’Homme in English (2016) (0)
Reason and Rationality, Early Modern Period (2020) (0)
Natural Philosophy and the Republic of Letters (2010) (0)
Author’s response: the naturalization of the human and the humanization of nature (2017) (0)
Science and Society (1983) (0)
Principia, Part I: The principles of knowledge (2002) (0)
Understanding the World (2020) (0)
Descartes and the First Cartesians (2015) (0)
Eric Jorink;, Ad Maas (Editors).Newton and the Netherlands: How Isaac Newton Was Fashioned in the Dutch Republic. 256 pp., illus., index. Amsterdam: Leiden University Press, 2013. $37 (paper). (2014) (0)
The Natural History of Man (2016) (0)
The World and Other Writings: Further reading (1998) (0)
The Paris Years 1625–1628 (1997) (0)
Principia, Part II: The principles of material objects (2002) (0)
The Years of Consolidation 1634–1640 (1997) (0)
The World and Other Writings: Discourse 8 of the Meteors (1998) (0)
The Oxford Handbook of British Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century, by Peter R. Anstey, ed. (2014) (0)
Principia, Part IV: The Earth (2002) (0)
A New Beginning 1629–1630 (1997) (0)
The World and Other Writings: Note on the texts (1998) (0)
The sources of Descartes’ procedure of deductive demonstration in metaphysics and natural philosophy (2018) (0)
6. Is it possible to represent things objectively (2012) (0)
The Realm of Reason (2010) (0)
The Interpretation of Nature and the Origins of Physico‐Theology (2006) (0)
The Apprenticeship with Beeckman 1618–1619 (1997) (0)
The World and Other Writings: Chronology (1998) (0)
A New System of the World 1630–1633 (1997) (0)
Banachiewicz, Thaddeus Julian (2007) (0)
Book Reviews : Philosophy and Methodology in the Social Sciences. by Barry Hndess. Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities Press, 1977. Pp. 258. $17.75 (1979) (0)
JürgenRenn. The evolution of knowledge: Rethinking science for the Anthropocene. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2020, 584 pp. ISBN: 9780691171982 (2020) (0)
9. Can there be objectivity in ethics (2012) (0)
The Aims of Enquiry (2006) (0)
Overview: Contingency in Nature (2019) (0)
3. Radical philosophy (2020) (0)
Justin E. H. Smith.Divine Machines: Leibniz and the Sciences of Life. xii + 380 pp., illus., tables, bibl., index. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2011. $45 (cloth). (2012) (0)
Abū al- ҁ Uqūl: Abū al- ҁ Uqūl Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Ṭabarī (2014) (0)
2. The origins of French philosophy (2020) (0)
French Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction (2020) (0)
Living and Dead Matter (2010) (0)
10. Can there be objectivity in taste (2012) (0)
Aristotle, On Poetics1 eds., and trans., Seth Benardete and (2001) (0)
5. What about our conceptual structuring of the world (2012) (0)
INNER LIFE AND TRANSCENDENTAL PHILOSOPHY IN HUSSERL (2016) (0)
Descartes: Philosophical Essays and Correspondence. René Descartes (2001) (0)
1. Introduction (2020) (0)
Whewell, Mill, and the Birth of the Philosophy of Science (2019) (0)
Review: Robert B. Louden: The World We Want (2009) (0)
The Quantitative Transformation of Natural Philosophy (2006) (0)
Theories of Meaning and Literary Theory (1991) (0)
Science and Modernity (2006) (0)
Subverting Aristotle: Religion, History, and Philosophy in Early Modern Science. Craig Martin. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. 262 pp. $54.95. (2015) (0)
Abharī: Athīr al-Dīn al-Mufaḍḍal ibn ҁUmar ibn al-Mufaḍḍal al-Samarqandī al-Abharī (2014) (0)
Anatomy, Mechanism and Anthropology. Nicolas Steno’s Reading of L’Homme (2020) (0)
The metaphysics of impenetrability: Euler’s conception of force (2018) (0)
8. Can the study of human behaviour be objective (2012) (0)
Reconstructing Natural Philosophy (2006) (0)
Enlightenment Criticisms of Descartes’ Anthropology (2016) (0)
Notices of Books (1961) (0)
Francis Bacon and the Transformation of Early-Modern Philosophy: Prologue (2001) (0)
Book Review:Causation in Early Modern Philosophy: Cartesianism, Occasionalism, and Preestablished Harmony Steven Nadler (1994) (0)
The Arts and Scientism: A Comment on 'Wittgenstein and Aesthetics' (2011) (0)
Notices of Books (1961) (0)
Renaissance Natural Philosophies (2006) (0)
Appendix: Descartes' Six Metaphysical Meditations, trans. William Molyneux (1680) (2008) (0)
Review: Descartes, A Biography (2007) (0)
Bacon and eclecticism (2002) (0)
Philosophy and the Physical Sciences (2014) (0)
5. Philosophy in wartime (2020) (0)
Religio and scientia (2016) (0)
2. Is objectivity a form of honesty (2012) (0)
Principia, Part V: Living things (2002) (0)
Sarah Irving.Natural Science and the Origins of the British Empire. (Empires in Perspective.) viii + 183 pp., bibl., index. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2008. $99 (cloth). (2009) (0)
The Metaphysical Unity of Natural Philosophy (2010) (0)
Scientific Materialism in Nineteenth Century Germany by F. Gregory (1979) (0)
What clocks tell us (2010) (0)
Rudānī: Abū ҁ Abdallāh Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān (Muḥammad) al-Fāsī ibn Ṭāhir al-Rudānī al-Sūsī al-Mālikī [al-Maghribī] (2014) (0)
Book Reviews (2000) (0)
Herder's naturalist aesthetics, by RachelZuckert. Cambridge University Press, 2019, xii + 266 pp. ISBN 9781108672580 hb £75 (2020) (0)
Descartes on Mindless Animals (2012) (0)
Naturalization of Religion (2019) (0)
The World and Other Writings: Discourse 2 of the Dioptrics (1998) (0)
Science For and By the Public (2020) (0)
4. Isn’t all perception and understanding relative? (2012) (0)
The Dichotomies of Understanding (2016) (0)
Spirits and clocks: Machine and organisation in Descartes; Descartes and the possibility of science (2002) (0)
The Mind of God and the Works of Man by Edward Craig (1990) (0)
3. Doesn’t science show there is no objectivity? (2012) (0)
An Education in Propriety 1606–1618 (1997) (0)
Adonis and Metis: Spice and Cunning (1979) (0)
Principia, Part III: The visible universe (2002) (0)
Abū al-Ṣalt: Umayya ibn ҁ Abd al- ҁ Azīz ibn Abī al-Ṣalt al-Dānī al-Andalusī (2014) (0)
Galileo, experiment, and the molecularity of meaning (2018) (0)
Rethinking the Nature of Matter (2016) (0)
Francis Bacon and the Transformation of Early-Modern Philosophy: Humanist models for scientia (2001) (0)
Science and the Origins of Civilization (2020) (0)
The shaping of the natural philosopher (2001) (0)
A Learned and Eloquent Piety (1997) (0)
The Principia and the Scholastic textbook tradition (2002) (0)
A Guide to Descartes' Meditations (2006) (0)
Corpuscularianism and the Rise of Mechanism (2006) (0)
Robert Hooke:Tercentennial Studies edited by M. Cooper and M. Hunter (2010) (0)
The Origins of Modernity: European Thought 1543–1789 (2003) (0)
The Scope of Mechanism (2006) (0)
The Unity of Knowledge (2006) (0)
7. French philosophy today (2020) (0)
Antonia LoLordo.Pierre Gassendi and the Birth of Early Modern Philosophy. x + 283 pp., bibl., index. Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. $88.95 (cloth). (2007) (0)
The Unity of the Life Sciences (2020) (0)
Descartes' System of Natural Philosophy: References to Descartes' works (2002) (0)
The Evolution of Civilization (2020) (0)
Science books award (2007) (0)
Francis Bacon and the Transformation of Early-Modern Philosophy: Method as a way of pursuing natural philosophy (2001) (0)
Nature without reason: Cartesian automata and perceptual cognition (2018) (0)
The Autonomy of the Material Sciences (2020) (0)
Augustinian Synthesis to Aristotelian Amalgam (2006) (0)
IDEAS IN CONTEXT (2001) (0)
Descartes' Philosophy of Science. Desmond M. Clarke (1983) (0)
Marta Fattori.Études sur Francis Bacon. 494 pp., bibl., index. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2010. €45 (cloth). (2012) (0)
Historical Understanding and the Human Condition (2010) (0)
Notes and Documents (2009) (0)
Descartes' System of Natural Philosophy: Bibliography (2002) (0)
Hilary Gatti (ed.), Giordano Bruno: Philosopher of the Renaissance. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002 (2003) (0)
The nature of Bacon's project (2001) (0)
The role of the ontological argument in Anselm, Descartes, and Spinoza (2018) (0)
Francis Bacon and the Transformation of Early-Modern Philosophy: The legitimation of natural philosophy (2001) (0)
BUSKIRK, MARTHA. Creative Enterprise: Contemporary Art between Museum and Marketplace.(London: Continuum). 2012. pp. 392.£ 22.99 (pbk). CURRIE, GREG; KOATKO, Petr and POKORNY, MARTIN (eds.). Mimesis: Metaphysics, Cognition, Pragmatics.(London (2012) (0)
Encyclopedias and Encyclopedic Knowledge (2021) (0)
The Challenges of Empirical Understanding in Early Modern Theology (2016) (0)
References to Bacon's works (2001) (0)
The Modernization of the Population (2020) (0)
The Enlightenment Historicization of Religion and Philosophy: Fontenelle and Hume (2018) (0)
The Problem of the Human Sciences (2020) (0)
Religio and scientia (2016) (0)
Descartes' System of Natural Philosophy: Principia , Part VI: Man (2002) (0)
Descartes' System of Natural Philosophy: Preface (2002) (0)
Edward Grant, A History of Natural Philosophy: From the Ancient World to the Nineteenth Century . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. xvi+361. ISBN 978-0-521-86931-7. £40.00, $70.00 (hardback). ISBN 978-0-521-68957-1. £14.99, $24.99 (paperback). (2008) (0)
Editors’ Introduction (2007) (0)
Pain and the Nature of Psychological Attributes (2014) (0)
Patterns of scientific growth. [Review of: Cohen, HF. The scientific revolution: a historiographical inquiry. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994]. (1995) (0)
Moritz Epple;, Claus Zittel (Editors).Science as Cultural Practice. Volume 1: Cultures and Politics of Research from the Early Modern Period to the Age of Extremes. 283 pp., illus., bibl. Munich: Akademie Verlag, 2010. €59.80 (cloth). (2012) (0)

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