A Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century England (Science and Its Conceptual Foundations series)

by Steven Shapin
A Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century England (Science and Its Conceptual Foundations series)  
published 1995 by University Of Chicago Press
binding Paperback
isbn 0226750191   (isbn13: 9780226750194)
pages 512
description 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 observat...more
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03-25-07



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This is a fascinating book, but for every page of actual argument, it engages in three pages of preemptive defense against critiques arising from obscure humanist turf wars. JESUS FUCKING CHRIST SHUT UP ALREADY AND GET TO THE POINT.
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