A social history of truth : civility and science in seventeenth-century England / Steven Shapin.
Shapin, Steven.
1995
Q175.52.G7 S48 1995 (Mapit)
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Title A social history of truth : civility and science in seventeenth-century England / Steven Shapin.
Author Shapin, Steven.
ISBN 0226750191 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780226750194 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0226750183
9780226750187
Publication Details Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1995.
Language English
Description xxxi, 483 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Call Number Q175.52.G7 S48 1995
Dewey Decimal Classification 306.4/5/094109032
Note "Published 1994; Paperback edition 1995"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 419-465) and index.
Series Science and its conceptual foundations.
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