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Knowledge and the public interest, 1575-1725 / Vera Keller, University of Oregon.

Knowledge and the public interest, 1575-1725 / Vera Kel...

Knowledge and the public interest, 1575-1725 / Vera Keller, University of Oregon.

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Knowledge and the public interest, 1575-1725 / Vera Keller, University of Oregon.

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Full title

Knowledge and the public interest, 1575-1725 / Vera Keller, University of Oregon.

Publisher

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017.

Call Numbers

G 2017/4633

Record Identifier

74VKVEjgZkPX

MMS ID

991024133716902626

Language

English

Formats

Physical Description

Physical content

x, 350 pages ; 23 cm

Content type

text

Media type

unmediated

Carrier type

volume

Contents

Part I. Introduction: 1. Collecting the future in the early modern past -- Part II. Origins: 2. Knowledge in ruins; 3. A charlatan's promise -- Part III. Inventing the Wish List: 4. Jakob Bornitz and the joy of things; 5. Francis Bacon's new world of sciences; 6. Things fall apart: Desiderata in the...

Publication information

Publisher

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017.

Edition

First paperback edition.

Place of Publication

England

Date Published

2017.

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Scope and Contents

Summary

"Many studies relate modern science to modern political and economic thought. Using one shift in order to explain the other, however, has begged the question of modernity's origins. New scientific and political reasoning emerged simultaneously as controversial forms of probabilistic reasoning. Neither could ground the other. They both rejected logi...

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Full title

Knowledge and the public interest, 1575-1725 / Vera Keller, University of Oregon.

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Notes

General note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Primary Identifiers

Call Numbers

G 2017/4633

Record Identifier

74VKVEjgZkPX

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVEjgZkPX

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ISBN

9781107526013 paperback

1107526019 paperback

DDC

001.209409032

MMS ID

991024133716902626

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