Revolutionising the Sciences: European Knowledge and Its Ambitions, 1500-1700 by Peter Dear, Peter Dear
Revolutionising the Sciences: European Knowledge and Its Ambitions, 1500-1700

Peter Dear, Peter Dear

Revolutionising the Sciences: European Knowledge and Its Ambitions, 1500-1700

Peter Dear, Peter Dear

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The European expansion around the globe, which began in the sixteenth century, carried with it new conceptions of knowledge itself. Francis Bacon famously asserted that 'knowledge is power' this book attempts to go beneath the oft quoted slogan to...

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