A Culture of Fact
Subtitle: England, 1550-1720
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: May 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780801488498
Subjects: European history (ie other than Britain & Ireland); History of science; History of specific subjects; Jurisprudence & General Issues; History: American; History - General History; England; Europe; Europe - Great Britain - General; History; Legal History
First sentence: The concept of "fact" took shape, I have suggested, in the legal arena and was then carried into other intellectual endeavors until it became part and parcel of the generally held habits of thought of late-seventeenth- and early-eighteenth-century English culture.