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| ISBN: | 9781316398852
1316398854
9781316273227
1316273229
1316401057
9781316401057
1316399974
9781316399972
9781107110137
1107110130
1316397238
9781316397237
1316399435
9781316399439
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index.
English.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | "Many studies relate modern science to modern political and economic thought. Using one shift in order to explain the other, however, has begged the question of modernity's origins. New scientific and political reasoning emerged simultaneously as controversial forms of probabilistic reasoning. Neither could ground the other. They both rejected logical systems in favor of shifting, incomplete, and human-oriented forms of knowledge which did not meet accepted standards of speculative science. This study follows their shared development by tracing one key political stratagem for linking human desires to the advancement of knowledge: the collaborative wish list. Highly controversial at the beginning of the seventeenth century, charismatic desiderata lists spread across Europe, often deployed against traditional sciences. They did not enter the academy for a century but eventually so shaped the deep structures of research that today this once controversial genre appears to be a musty and even pedantic term of art"--
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| Other form: | Print version: Keller, Vera, 1978- Knowledge and the public interest, 1575-1725 9781316273227
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| Standard no.: | 10.1017/CBO9781316273227
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