A Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century England by Steven Shapin

A Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century England

Steven Shapin

512 pages • first pub 1994 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy science informative medium-paced
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How do we come to trust our knowledge of the world? What are the means by which we distinguish true from false accounts? Why do we credit one observational statement over another?In A Social History of Truth, Shapin engages these universal questio...

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