Historians are good at putting objects in their place. Details about context, manufacture, use, abuse, meaning, significance, decay, and so on are layered so that an object itself becomes a carrier of its moment in history. Putting material back into the fabric of history itself enriches that history.
The Birth of Modern Belief is seriously good. It is erudite, insightful, and cogent; but, above all, it enables us to think hard about the relationship between our past and our present.
Francis Bacon’s unfinished utopian novel The New Atlantis is often invoked in scholarship about early modern scientific projects.
Wanahistoria ni wazuri katika kuweka vitu mahali pake. Maelezo kuhusu muktadha, utengenezaji, matumizi, matumizi mabaya, maana, umuhimu, uharibifu, na kadhalika ni layered hivyo kwamba kitu yenyewe inakuwa carrier ya wakati wake katika historia. Kuingiza habari katika muundo wa historia yenyewe huimarisha historia hiyo. Kuzaliwa kwa Imani ya Kisasa ni mbaya sana. Ni yenye elimu, yenye ufahamu, na yenye kusadikisha; lakini, juu ya yote, inatuwezesha kufikiri kwa uzito juu ya uhusiano kati ya wakati wetu uliopita na wa sasa. Francis Bacon's unfinished utopian novel The New Atlantis ni mara nyingi invoked katika udhamini kuhusu mapema miradi ya kisasa ya kisayansi.