Description
| Product ID: | 9780226750194 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Series: | Science & its Conceptual Foundations Series SCF |
| Title: | A Social History of Truth |
| Subtitle: | Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century England |
| Authors: | Author: Steven Shapin |
| Page Count: | 512 |
| Subjects: | History of ideas, History of ideas, Anthropology, Philosophy of science, History of science, Anthropology, Philosophy of science, History of science |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. |
| Imprint Name: | University of Chicago Press |
| Publisher Name: | The University of Chicago Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 1995-11-15 |
