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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... important roles, the heroic model of science looks deeply flawed today, no longer workable as the foundation of all truth-seeking in this or any other culture. Science has lost its innocence. Rather than being perceived as value-free ...
... important roles, the heroic model of science looks deeply flawed today, no longer workable as the foundation of all truth-seeking in this or any other culture. Science has lost its innocence. Rather than being perceived as value-free ...
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... about physical nature than had ever been assembled in any work in the history of human thought. Contemporaries and subsequent generations saw the publication of the Principia in 1687 as the single most important event in the early modern.
... about physical nature than had ever been assembled in any work in the history of human thought. Contemporaries and subsequent generations saw the publication of the Principia in 1687 as the single most important event in the early modern.
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Joyce Appleby, Lynn Hunt, Margaret Jacob. as the single most important event in the early modern history of printing. Earlier seventeenth-century scientists and philosophers had laid the groundwork for the Principia. Scientists such as ...
Joyce Appleby, Lynn Hunt, Margaret Jacob. as the single most important event in the early modern history of printing. Earlier seventeenth-century scientists and philosophers had laid the groundwork for the Principia. Scientists such as ...
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... importance of science in Western modernity can be traced to far more than the anticlerical polemics of Voltaire and his friends. Newtonian science, as embodied in applied mechanics, became the essential intellectual ingredient, the ...
... importance of science in Western modernity can be traced to far more than the anticlerical polemics of Voltaire and his friends. Newtonian science, as embodied in applied mechanics, became the essential intellectual ingredient, the ...
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... important, the method must proceed and be recorded in such a way that any experimenter can repeat the procedure and in the process validate or refute its findings. But in the original, heroic version of why science works, the method ...
... important, the method must proceed and be recorded in such a way that any experimenter can repeat the procedure and in the process validate or refute its findings. But in the original, heroic version of why science works, the method ...
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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