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A Social History of Truth : Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century England (Science and Its Conceptual Foundations series)
A Social History of Truth Civility and Science in SeventeenthCentury England - Science and Its Conceptual Foundations series
Author: Steven Shapin
How do we come to trust our knowledge of the world? What are the means by which we distinguish true from false accounts? Why do we credit one observational statement over another? — In A Social History of Truth, Shapin engages these universal questions through an elegant recreation of a crucial period in the history of early modern science...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780226750187
ISBN-10: 0226750183
Publication Date: 6/15/1994
Pages: 512
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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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