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An Ocean of Lies: The Problem of Historical Evidence in the Sixteenth Century
Ist Teil von
The Huntington Library quarterly, 2011-09, Vol.74 (3), p.375-400
Ort / Verlag
Philadelphia: University of California Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2011
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Literature Online (LION)
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While some early modern scholars insisted upon the credibility of histories produced by eyewitnesses or authors invested withfides, others alleged that prejudices compromised these accounts. This uncertainty generated a regime of evaluating historical testimony that prized collating insights gathered by mining an extensive range of sources for each particular fragment of evidence. This method demanded that scholars assess even dubious sources with credulity. Its implementation produced the period's foremost works of scholarship and, as Nicholas Popper concludes, Francis Bacon reconfigured this empirical approach as a central aspect of his reformation of natural philosophy.