Knowledge and the Public Interest, 1575-1725 / Vera Keller, University of Oregon.
Knowledge and the Public Interest, 1575-1725 / Vera Keller, University of Oregon.
Knowledge and the Public Interest, 1575-1725 / Vera Keller, University of Oregon.
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New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
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G 2016/493
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English
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Physical content
x, 350 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
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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 IIL. 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...
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New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
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New York (State)
Date Published
2015.
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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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Knowledge and the Public Interest, 1575-1725 / Vera Keller, University of Oregon.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2016/493
Record Identifier
74VKzWJZPvZg
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKzWJZPvZg
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ISBN
1107110130 (hardback)
9781107110137 (hardback)
DDC
001.209409032
MMS ID
991023498699702626
