Telling the Truth about History"A fascinating historiographical essay. . . . An unusually lucid and inclusive explication of what it ultimately at stake in the culture wars over the nature, goals, and efficacy of history as a discipline."—Booklist |
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... Newton. The laws of science seemed so absolutely true and so different from the medieval view of nature that only ... Newton's Principia consolidated and made accessible the new scientific understanding.
... Newton. The laws of science seemed so absolutely true and so different from the medieval view of nature that only ... Newton's Principia consolidated and made accessible the new scientific understanding.
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... Newton's science, the philosophes claimed, could be attributed solely to the progressive insights of earlier geniuses: Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Descartes, and Boyle. To borrow a phrase made famous by Isaac Newton, each scientist in ...
... Newton's science, the philosophes claimed, could be attributed solely to the progressive insights of earlier geniuses: Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Descartes, and Boyle. To borrow a phrase made famous by Isaac Newton, each scientist in ...
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... Newton's Principia. Using geometrical demonstrations, Newton established that the laws of motion and inertia which work on bodies here in this world also apply to the heavens. With a simple mathematical equation, it became possible to ...
... Newton's Principia. Using geometrical demonstrations, Newton established that the laws of motion and inertia which work on bodies here in this world also apply to the heavens. With a simple mathematical equation, it became possible to ...
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... Newton's ideas. Galileo and his contemporaries experimented with everything from wooden balls to the movement of water in relation to its weight, and they discovered, for example, that a body in free fall accelerates in such a way that ...
... Newton's ideas. Galileo and his contemporaries experimented with everything from wooden balls to the movement of water in relation to its weight, and they discovered, for example, that a body in free fall accelerates in such a way that ...
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... Newton's contemporary and a trained physician, could not master the proofs without assistance. But when the first twelve or so mathematically gifted readers picked up Newton's Principia and struggled to its final chapter, the Baconian ...
... Newton's contemporary and a trained physician, could not master the proofs without assistance. But when the first twelve or so mathematically gifted readers picked up Newton's Principia and struggled to its final chapter, the Baconian ...
Contents
History Makes a Nation | |
Competing Histories of America | |
Discovering the Clay Feet of Science | |
Postmodernism and the Crisis of Modernity | |
Truth and Objectivity | |
The Future of History | |
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Telling the Truth about History Joyce Oldham Appleby,Lynn Hunt,Lynn Avery Hunt,Margaret C. Jacob Limited preview - 1994 |
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