Description “Recent literature has explored at some length the transition between individual observations and the experimental facts that they are supposed to establish, emphasizing particularly the social dimension of this question. In this article I examine some crucial stages in the history of this problem, in particular, the way in which the establishment of experimental facts became social. I begin with a brief discussion of experimental facthood in late Renaissance thought before turning to Bacon and Descartes and showing the extent to which their conception of experimental facthood is radically individualistic. I then discuss the self-consciously social conception of experimental facthood found in the writings of the early Royal Society.” From the abstract.
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Dunn, Kevin;
(1994)
Pretexts of authority: The rhetoric of authorship in the Renaissance preface
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Barry, James, Jr.;
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Measures of science: Theological and technological impulses in early modern thought
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Angelet, Benoit;
(1979)
Une logique de l'ignorance: La dialectique du pouvoir dans la lignée de Bacon, Descartes et Hobbes
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Kern, Robert;
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Bacon, Descartes, and the background of music
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Spallanzani, Mariafranca;
(1982)
Sull'albero enciclopedico delle conoscenze: Una classificazione del sapere tra Bacone e Descartes
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Mordechai Feingold;
(2016)
“Experimental Philosophy”: Invention and Rebirth of a Seventeenth-Century Concept
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Antonio Clericuzio;
(2018)
Plant and Soil Chemistry in Seventeenth-Century England: Worsley, Boyle and Coxe
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Lynch, William;
(2001)
Solomon's Child: Method in the Early Royal Society of London
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Anstey, Peter R.;
(2002)
Locke, Bacon and Natural History
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Franco Giudice;
(2020)
Tobie Matthew, Francis Bacon, and Galileo's Letter to Benedetto Castelli
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Richard Yeo;
(2018)
Hippocrates’ Complaint and the Scientific Ethos in Early Modern England
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Lynch, William T.;
(2005)
A Society of Baconians? The Collective Development of Bacon's Method in the Royal Society of London
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Sargent, Rose-Mary;
(2012)
From Bacon to Banks: The Vision and the Realities of Pursuing Science for the Common Good
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Carlos Solís Santos;
(2018)
El hombre que quería saberlo todo. Bacon entre los científicos del siglo XVII
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Blay, Michel;
(1985)
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Attie, Katherine Bootle;
(2013)
Selling Science: Bacon, Harvey and the Commodification of Knowledge
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Gontier, Thierry;
(2006)
Mathématiques et science universelle chez Bacon et chez Descartes
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Lipking, Lawrence;
(2014)
What Galileo Saw: Imagining the Scientific Revolution
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Rossi, Paolo;
(2000)
Logic and the Art of Memory: The Quest for a Universal Language
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Fattori, Marta;
(1998)
La Préface aux Passions de l'âme: Remarques sur Descartes et Bacon
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