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Planks from a Shipwreck: Belief and Evidence in Sixteenth-Century Histories (2023)

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Historical method Imagination Empiricism Communication Primary literature (historical sources) Belief and doubt Evidence 16th century Germany

This paper asks whether early modern fabulists believed their fabulous claims. Focusing on histories of the German people–many of which combine in almost equal measure something alluring, like a good story and philological acumen, and something absurd, like the least literal reading of the story of Genesis one might imagine–the paper documents how these histories entered the scholarly world as important and oft cited sources for the credulous and incredulous alike. If, as many historians now believe, the extensive empiricism in sixteenth-century historical practice is an outgrowth of confronting the fakes, this paper explains the methodologies employed by authors who believed their own fabulous claims and the readers who recognized fully credible evidence was an ideal rather than a common reality.

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Authors & Contributors
Achinstein, Peter
Bentley, Joseph G.
Corneanu, Sorana
Kuukkanen, Jouni-Matti
Lele, Subhash R.
Martín, Dolores
Journals
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Early Science and Medicine: A Journal for the Study of Science, Technology and Medicine in the Pre-modern Period
HOPOS
Circumscribere: International Journal for the History of Science
History in Africa
History of Science
Publishers
Taylor & Francis
Bardi
University of Chicago Press
Concepts
Empiricism
Evidence
Primary literature (historical sources)
Historical method
Philosophy of science
Methodology of science; scientific method
People
Brentano, Franz Clemens
Cheng, Yaotian
Gassendi, Pierre
Handsch, Georg
Lambert, Johann Heinrich
Latour, Bruno
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, early
19th century
17th century
16th century
18th century
Places
Germany
United States
Africa
Bohemia
Canada
China
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