The dark side of knowledge : : histories of ignorance, 1400 to 1800 / / edited by Cornel Zwierlein ; contributors Giovanni Ceccarelli [and fifteen others].

How can one study the absence of knowledge, the voids, the conscious and unconscious unknowns through history? Investigations into late medieval and early modern practices of measuring, of risk calculation, of ignorance within financial administrations, of conceiving the docta ignorantia as well as...

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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2016.
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Intersections 46.
Physical Description:1 online resource (454 pages) :; illustrations, tables.
Notes:Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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