A Culture of Fact: England, 1550-1720

Cornell University Press (2000)
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Shapiro traces the genesis of the fact, a modern concept that 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.

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