Making Knowledge in Early Modern Europe: Practices, Objects, and Texts, 1400-1800

by Benjamin Schmidt (Author), PamelaHSmith (Author)

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  Paperback
  2008

  $35.95

  Explores how knowledge was obtained and demonstrated in Europe when standard methods of inquiry took shape across several fields of intellectual pursuit. This book looks at production and consumption of knowledge as a social process. It focuses on how various methods came to interact with practices of craftspeople to create new ways of knowing.