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Power, knowledge, and expertise in Elizabethan England
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Power, knowledge, and expertise in Elizabethan England / Eric H. Ash.
ISBN
0801879922 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Published
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2004.
Physical Description
viii, 265 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 09, 2005
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references ([217]-248) and index.
Contents
Introduction : mediators and Elizabethan England
German miners, English mistrust, and the importance of being "expert"
Expert mediation and the rebuilding of Dover Harbor
Early mathematical navigation in England
Secants and sailors : Elizabethan manuals of navigation
Truth and utility : Francis Bacon and the expertise of natural philosophy.
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