Titlebook: Evidence in the Age of the New Sciences; James A.T. Lancaster,Richard Raiswell Book 2018 Springer International Publishing AG, part of Spr

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-34567-9at there is a close link between these two interests. They suggest that data gleaned from travel literature was used in the construction of natural histories. This paper uses Locke’s reading of François Pyrard’s . to argue that the relationship between the two genres was closer than has been realize

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-12241-6macy of Rome in theological matters based on the fact that it was the primary place of early Christian martyrdom, but now it became possible to support this claim with visual evidence. This evidentiary character of early Christian Martyrdom had significant consequences for the adoption and interpret

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-62211-7e served to promote confessional ideologies and visions. Through the example of the seventeenth-century Carmelite missionary Antonio Vásquez de Espinosa who worked in America, I examine how raw evidence recontextualized as geography was employed to propagate Catholic outlooks and to sacralize overse

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Ausgangslage und Problemstellung,iscovery; it was not, however, received with universal acclaim. In England, a particularly influential group emerged that comprised a reaction against the perceived heterodoxy of Newton’s work and its lack of sufficient corroborative evidence. Started by John Hutchinson (1674–1737), these anti-Newto

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Implikationen für die Unternehmenspraxis-literate minds are more sophisticated in their understandings of the natural world. This paper explores iterations of English popular naturalism, or thinking about nature, in almanacs and household manuals from the late-sixteenth to the late-eighteenth centuries. All apply Aristotelian principles o

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James A.T. Lancaster,Richard RaiswellOffers 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

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