Steven Shapin

Broschiertes Buch

A Social History of Truth

Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century England

Beschreibung

This work employs detailed historical narrative to argue about the establishment of factual knowledge both in science and in everyday practice. Accounts of gentlemen-philosophers are used to illustrate the study's claim that trust is imperative for constituting every kind of knowledge.

Autor

Steven Shapin is professor emeritus of the history of science at Harvard University. His books include Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life (with Simon Schaffer); The Scientific Life: A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation; The Scientific Revolution; A Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century England; and Never Pure: Historical Studies of Science as if It Was Produced by People with Bodies, Situated in Time, Space, Culture, and Society, and Struggling for Credibility and Authority.

Produktdetails

• Science and Its Conceptual Foundations series
• Verlag: The University of Chicago Press
• Seitenzahl: 512
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 1995
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 154mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 724g
• ISBN-13: 9780226750194
• ISBN-10: 0226750191
• Artikelnr.: 21323174