书目名称 | Evidence in the Age of the New Sciences |
编辑 | James A.T. Lancaster,Richard Raiswell |
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概述 | Offers the first book-length exploration of the sources and varieties of evidence in early modern Europe.Highlights the contested nature of the construction of evidence during the Scientific Revolutio |
丛书名称 | International Archives of the History of Ideas‘ Archives internationales d‘histoire des idées |
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描述 | .The motto of the Royal Society—.Nullius in verba.—was intended to highlight the members’ rejection of received knowledge and the new place they afforded direct empirical evidence in their quest for genuine, useful knowledge about the world. But while many studies have raised questions about the construction, reception and authentication of knowledge, .Evidence in the Age of the New Sciences. is the first to examine the problem of evidence at this pivotal moment in European intellectual history. What constituted evidence—and for whom? Where might it be found? How should it be collected and organized? What is the relationship between evidence and proof? These are crucial questions, for what constitutes evidence determines how people interrogate the world and the kind of arguments they make about it..In this important new collection, Lancaster and Raiswell have assembled twelve studies that capture aspects of the debate over evidence in a variety of intellectual contexts. From law and theology to geography, medicine and experimental philosophy, the chapters highlight the great diversity of approaches to evidence-gathering that existed side by side in the sixteenth and seventeenth cen |
出版日期 | Book 2018 |
关键词 | Evidence in Early Modern Europe; Early Modern Conceptions of Proof; Early Modern Science; Early Modern |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91869-3 |
isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-06316-0 |
isbn_ebook | 978-3-319-91869-3Series ISSN 0066-6610 Series E-ISSN 2215-0307 |
issn_series | 0066-6610 |
copyright | Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018 |