I Saw The Logic That They Used, And The Death Of A Thousand Cuts As Experimental Scientists Slowly Chipped Away At The Belief That The World Was An Inexplicably Powerful, Magical Place. Ultimately They Failed, Though. The Magic Never Really Went Away. It Waited, Quietly, For People To Return To It When They Found The Science Wanting.

-Deborah Harkness

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I Saw The Logic That They Used,

Deborah Harkness

I Saw The Logic That They Used, And The Death Of A Thousand Cuts As Experimental Scientists Slowly Chipped Away At The Belief That The World Was An Inexplicably Powerful, Magical Place. Ultimately They Failed, Though. The Magic Never Really Went Away. It Waited, Quietly, For People To Return To It When They Found The Science Wanting.

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Pamela Smith And Benjamin Schmidt Have Gathered Together A Wide-ranging And Provocative Set Of Original Essays That Successfully Demonstrate How Contingent The Process Of Making Knowledge Was During A Period Of Fundamental Epistemological Change. This Is A Finely Crafted And Conceptualized Collection.

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