Dilemmas and Uncertainties : The Sciences at the Early Modern University
The authors of this volume bring new insights to the intellectual history of knowledge and belief in sciences, and they do so by focusing on the presence of debates and multiple truths in university context. It has been observed that “in the past two decades, scholars have come to value uncertainty...
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De Gruyter
2026
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