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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... imagining a universe at rest unless put in motion by the Prime Mover, the God of scholastic theologians, Galileo's experiments permitted those who could follow his logic to imagine nature as a self-regulating mechanism. The most ...
... imagining a universe at rest unless put in motion by the Prime Mover, the God of scholastic theologians, Galileo's experiments permitted those who could follow his logic to imagine nature as a self-regulating mechanism. The most ...
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... imagined to have been: a giant of reason who peers at nature with eyes that are value-free, neutral, and objective. Newton's famous dictum that he did not “feign” hypotheses came in the course of the eighteenth century to symbolize the ...
... imagined to have been: a giant of reason who peers at nature with eyes that are value-free, neutral, and objective. Newton's famous dictum that he did not “feign” hypotheses came in the course of the eighteenth century to symbolize the ...
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... imagined to be a blank slate upon which sense impressions wove their messages. The clear scientific eye became transparent as it faced nature, made so by the method and rigor only experiment and mathematics could impart to its gaze. As ...
... imagined to be a blank slate upon which sense impressions wove their messages. The clear scientific eye became transparent as it faced nature, made so by the method and rigor only experiment and mathematics could impart to its gaze. As ...
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... imagined nature as free and yet ordered had a political analogue in the eighteenth-century English and American systems of constitutional and parliamentary government. The Newtonian universe acted as an imaginary backdrop on which to ...
... imagined nature as free and yet ordered had a political analogue in the eighteenth-century English and American systems of constitutional and parliamentary government. The Newtonian universe acted as an imaginary backdrop on which to ...
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... real, and universal entity. Newtonian laws can predict where a planet will be at any given moment in the year because time is imagined as independent and everywhere the same. New ways of measuring time foreshadowed and then reinforced the.
... real, and universal entity. Newtonian laws can predict where a planet will be at any given moment in the year because time is imagined as independent and everywhere the same. New ways of measuring time foreshadowed and then reinforced the.
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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