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Vera Keller - Knowledge and the Public Interest, 1575-1725 - 9781107110137 - V9781107110137
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Knowledge and the Public Interest, 1575-1725

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Description for Knowledge and the Public Interest, 1575-1725 hardcover. This study shows that modernity has its origins in the advancement of knowledge, not in the Scientific Revolution. Num Pages: 310 pages, 12 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 3JB; 3JD; 3JF; HBG; HBLH; HBTB; JFCX. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 152. .
Many studies relate modern science to modern political and economic thought. Using one shift in order to explain the other, however, has begged the question of modernity's origins. New scientific and political reasoning emerged simultaneously as controversial forms of probabilistic reasoning. Neither could ground the other. They both rejected logical systems in favor of shifting, incomplete, and human-oriented forms of knowledge which did not meet accepted standards of speculative science. This study follows their shared development by tracing one key political stratagem for linking human desires to the advancement of knowledge: the collaborative wish list. Highly controversial at the beginning ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
310
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
310
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107110137
SKU
V9781107110137
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About Vera Keller
Vera Keller (Ph.D., Princeton University, New Jersey) is an Assistant Professor of History at Robert D. Clark Honors College, University of Oregon. She is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including, most recently, the Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship of Scholars in Critical Bibliography and the Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies.

Reviews for Knowledge and the Public Interest, 1575-1725
'Vera Keller develops a strikingly new perspective on early modern science by focusing on the genre of the wish list and its spread in English- and German-speaking contexts across the long seventeenth century. Ambitious goals that promised the fulfilment of political and economic desires amid an awareness of the precariousness of knowledge motivated a host of fascinating characters, from charlatans ... Read more

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