Arts of calculation : Quantifying thought in early modern Europe

Though the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries have long been recognized as watershed moments of scientific discovery in Western Europe, recent work in "historical epistemology" has underscored the complexity and unevenness of the transition from older to newer forms of knowing and acting...

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Tác giả chính: Glimp, David
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Được phát hành: New York Palgrave Macmillan 2004
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