The Invention of Discovery, 1500-1700

The Invention of Discovery, 1500-1700
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Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages : 240
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ISBN-10 : 075466841X
ISBN-13 : 9780754668411
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Book Synopsis The Invention of Discovery, 1500-1700 by : James Dougal Fleming

Download or read book The Invention of Discovery, 1500-1700 written by James Dougal Fleming and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2011 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Bacon to Galileo, from stagecraft to maths, from martyrology to romance, contributors to this interdisciplinary collection examine the early-modern generation of discovery as an absolute and ostensibly neutral standard of knowledge-production. They further investigate the hermeneutic implications for the epistemological authority that tends, in modernity, still to be based on that standard.


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