"Fact" and the law --"Fact" and history -- Discourses of fact: chorography, description, and travel reporting -- "News," "marvels," "wonders," and the periodical press -- The facts of nature I -- The facts of nature II -- Facts of religion -- Cultural elaboration of "fact."
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"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."--Jacket.
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Title
Culture of fact.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Curiosities and wonders-- England-- Historiography.
Facts (Philosophy)
Knowledge, Theory of.
Law and fact-- England-- History.
Physical sciences-- England-- Historiography.
Knowledge.
Natural Science Disciplines-- history.
Connaissance, Théorie de la.
Curiosités et merveilles-- Angleterre-- Historiographie.