Title: A Culture of Fact
First published: 2000
Description: "Barbara J. Shapiro traces the surprising genesis of the "fact," a modern concept that, she convincingly demonstrates, originated not in natural science but in legal discourse. She follows the concept's evolution and diffusion across a variety of disciplines in early modern England, examining how the emerging "culture of fact" shaped the epistemological assumptions of each intellectual enterprise."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Curiosities and wonders, England, Facts (Philosophy), Great Britain, Historiography, History, Intellectual life, Knowledge, Theory of, Law and fact, Physical sciences, Theory of Knowledge, Evidence (law), great britain, Science, history, Science, philosophy, Great britain, intellectual life, Science, Philosophy, Evidence (Law)
Places: England, Great Britain
Time periods: 16th century, 17th century, 18th century, Stuarts, 1603-1714, Tudors, 1485-1603
LC classification: DA380 .S52 2000