Objectivity in the Making: Francis Bacon and the Politics of Inquiry

by Julie Robin Solomon and Professor Julie Robin Solomon

Book Overview

How we arrived at a capacity for taking cold, hard looks at the facts of nature--and whether we ever truly have done so--are questions that continue to engage both historians of science and students of culture. Historians of modern European intellectual history commonly credit Francis Bacon with laying the groundwork for a mode of study that begins without presuppositions, religious or otherwise, the kind of searching we know as research and long...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801872499
• ISBN13: 9780801872495
• Release Date: June 2003
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.0"