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HoP 396 - Lorraine Daston on Renaissance Science

History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

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The Renaissance Humanists - Are They Really Trying to Reproduce Them?

i am faced with the riches that arrived first in italy, and then further north of the alps after 14 53. So i take it from everything you've just said, that the lazy assumption that we might ad that scholars from these early periods would have been very credulous is wrong. They were actually much more careful about what they were willing to lend credence to. And i suppose that they often report amazing sounding things and then say, ye, but we're not so sure this really happened. It's a really good question, and i think there's really no easy answer.

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