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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... method came in the eighteenth century to be seen as the measure of all human truth. Imitate mechanical science, follow its methods, seek laws for everything from human biology to the art of governing—that was the advice bequeathed to ...
... method came in the eighteenth century to be seen as the measure of all human truth. Imitate mechanical science, follow its methods, seek laws for everything from human biology to the art of governing—that was the advice bequeathed to ...
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... methods of reasoning became viable alternatives to the older intellectual absolutisms inherited from the Christianization of the West. Newton's Principia consolidated and made accessible the new scientific understanding.
... methods of reasoning became viable alternatives to the older intellectual absolutisms inherited from the Christianization of the West. Newton's Principia consolidated and made accessible the new scientific understanding.
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... method for inventing a new earth. The Origins of Scientific Neutrality Coming out of the Scientific Revolution, the heroic model of science solidified in the early eighteenth century under the impact of Newton's Principia. Using ...
... method for inventing a new earth. The Origins of Scientific Neutrality Coming out of the Scientific Revolution, the heroic model of science solidified in the early eighteenth century under the impact of Newton's Principia. Using ...
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... Method as an alternative to the medieval philosophies taught by the clergy who controlled the French universities. Illustrated on its title page by a peasant digging his field, it insisted in clear and simple language that every ...
... Method as an alternative to the medieval philosophies taught by the clergy who controlled the French universities. Illustrated on its title page by a peasant digging his field, it insisted in clear and simple language that every ...
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... method of the new science developed during the Scientific Revolution—and in its fundamentals practiced to this day—true knowledge about nature occurs only after careful and replicable investigations performed by a distinctive method of ...
... method of the new science developed during the Scientific Revolution—and in its fundamentals practiced to this day—true knowledge about nature occurs only after careful and replicable investigations performed by a distinctive method of ...
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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