Making Knowledge in Early Modern Europe: Practices, Objects, and Texts, 1400 - 1800

Making Knowledge in Early Modern Europe: Practices, Objects, and Texts, 1400 - 1800
ISBN-10
0226763293
ISBN-13
9780226763293
Category
History
Pages
373
Language
English
Published
2007
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Authors
Pamela H. Smith, Benjamin Schmidt

Description

Aims to bring together essays that explore how knowledge was obtained and demonstrated in Europe during an intellectually explosive four centuries, when standard methods of inquiry took shape across several fields of intellectual pursuit. This book looks at production and consumption of knowledge as a social process within different communities.

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