Article ID: CBB000010470

The consequences of prediction (1976)

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Description “The theme...is that social institutions and patterns of thinking changed between 1600 and 1800 in ways that reinforced the notion that the future is predictable and to some extent controllable by people.”


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Authors & Contributors
Soule, Emily Berquist
Thomas, Keith
Spielvogel, Jackson
Soboul, Albert
Pearl, Jason H.
Manuel, Fritzie P.
Journals
Rivista storica italiana
Rivista di Filosofia
Revue des Sciences Humaines
Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Western Society for French History
Llull: Revista de la Sociedad Española de Historia de las Ciencias y de las Técnicas
História, Ciências, Saúde---Manguinhos
Publishers
University of Virginia Press
University of Pennsylvania Press
State University of New York Press
Société des Études Robespierristes
Niemeyer
Harvard University Press
Concepts
Utopias
Science
Science and society
Science and literature
Colonialism
Literature
People
Train, Russell Errol
Paul, the Apostle, Saint
Morelly
João Daniel
Helvétius, Claude Adrien
Hartlib, Samuel
Time Periods
18th century
17th century
Renaissance
Medieval
19th century
Places
France
Batavia (Netherlands)
England
Peru
Amazon River Region (South America)
South America
Institutions
Jesuits (Society of Jesus)
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