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HoP 396 - Lorraine Daston on Renaissance Science

History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

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How Eye Witness Reports Are Disseminated

From the standpoint of natural philosophy, from what we would call science, they belong in two quite separate categories. So something like a magnet that attracts metal, that would be not a miracle, but still wondrous. Whereas something like someone rising from the dead would obviously be a miracle exactly. We're dealing with both - especially after about 16 50, with eye witness ports which are sent in to what we would now regard as the first scientific journals.

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