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Historian and Scientist : An Essay on the Nature of History and the Social Sciences / Gaetano Salvemini.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Salvemini, Gaetano, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Geschichte.
- Historiography.
- Social sciences.
- United States--Massachusetts--Cambridge.
- Local Subjects:
- Historiography.
- United States--Massachusetts--Cambridge.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (211 p.)
- Edition:
- Reprint 2014
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014]
- Language Note:
- English
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- I A DEFINITION OF TERMS
- II INTELLECTUAL HYBRIDS
- III AN ISSUE WHICH CANNOT BE EVADED
- IV THE SOURCES OF HISTORICAL KNOWLEDGE
- V HISTORICAL SKEPTICISM
- VI SELECTION AND IMAGINATION
- VII BIAS AND HYPOTHESIS
- VIII UNIQUE AND RECURRING FACTS
- IX COMPLEXITY, MEASUREMENT, AND EXPERIMENT
- X PREVISION
- XI EXACT AND INEXACT SCIENCES
- XII FROM HUMILITY TO TOLERANCE
- APPENDIX
- INDEX
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)
- ISBN:
- 0-674-43352-1
- OCLC:
- 1024026623
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