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How to 'Be Expert' in Early Modern Europe (2022)

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Being “an expert” is a relatively recent phenomenon; it came into common use only in the nineteenth century.1 In medieval and early modern Europe, one was not “an” expert, a noun embodying a person, so much as one was “expert,” an adjective that suggested active participation in something. “Expert” came from the same Latin root, the verb experiri, as the words “experience” and “experiment.” The phrase expertus sum literally meant “I experienced” but often indicated something more along the lines of “I know from experience” or “I know from trying it out.” It implied an act—whether observing a phenomenon or provoking one.2

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Article Henry M. Cowles; Chitra Ramalingam (2022) Introduction. Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences (pp. 118-119). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Fix, Adam
Robinson, Benedict
Lee, Daniel D.
McLeod, Carmen
Masha Raskolnikov
Papadopoulos, Dimitris
Concepts
Experience; witness
Experiments and experimentation
Expertise
Observation
Participation
Technoscience; science and technology studies
Time Periods
Early modern
Medieval
21st century
Renaissance
Modern
Ancient
Places
Europe
England
United States
Japan
Italy
Greece
Institutions
Royal Society
Ikhwān al-Ṣafā (Brethren of Purity)
Royal Society of London
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