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"Barbara J. Shapiro traces the surprising genesis of the "fact," a modern concept that, she convincingly demonstrates, originated not in natural science but in legal discourse. She follows the concept's evolution and diffusion across a variety of disciplines in early modern England, examining how the emerging "culture of fact" shaped the epistemological assumptions of each intellectual enterprise."--BOOK JACKET.
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Curiosities and wonders, England, Facts (Philosophy), Great Britain, Historiography, History, Intellectual life, Knowledge, Theory of, Law and fact, Physical sciences, Theory of Knowledge, Evidence (law), great britain, Science, history, Science, philosophy, Great britain, intellectual life, Science, Philosophy, Evidence (Law)Places
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A Culture of Fact: England, 1550-1720
May 2003, Cornell University Press
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0801488494 9780801488498
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A culture of fact: England, 1550-1720
2000, Cornell University Press
in English
0801436869 9780801436864
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"The concept of "fact" took shape, I have suggested, in the legal arena and was then carried into other intellectual endeavors until it became part and parcel of the generally held habits of thought of late-seventeenth- and early-eighteenth-century English culture."
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