Brendan Dooley Books
The Continued Exercise of Reason
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Lectures, many never before published, that offer insights into the early thinking of the mathematician and polymath George Boole.George Boole (1815–1864), remembered by history as the developer of...
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Morandi s Last Prophecy and the End of Renaissance Politics
"One year before Galileo's, another trial was the talk of Rome. The city's most notorious astrologer - Orazio Morandi, abbot of the monastery of Santa Prassede - was brought before the governor's c...
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The social history of skepticism
"Do new information technologies always produce progress and enlightenment? No, at least not according to observers in seventeenth-century Europe. As Brendan Dooley demonstrates in The Social Histo...
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