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  1. Leopold ranke's archival turn: Location and evidence in modern historiography*: Kasper risbjerg Eskildsen.Kasper Risbjerg Eskildsen - 2008 - Modern Intellectual History 5 (3):425-453.
    From 1827 to 1831 the German historian Leopold von Ranke travelled through Germany, Austria, and Italy, hunting for documents and archives. During this journey Ranke developed a new model for historical research that transformed the archive into the most important site for the production of historical knowledge. Within the archive, Ranke claimed, the trained historian could forget his personal predispositions and political loyalties, and write objective history. This essay critically examines Ranke's model for historical research through a study of the (...)
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  • The Emergence of a Visual Language for Geological Science 1760—1840.Martin J. S. Rudwick - 1976 - History of Science 14 (3):149-195.
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  • Universal history from counter-reformation to enlightenment.Tamara Griggs - 2007 - Modern Intellectual History 4 (2):219-247.
    Historical scholarship often relies on intermittent adjustments rather than radical innovation. Through a close reading of three different universal histories published between 1690 and 1760, this essay argues that the secularization of world history in the age of Enlightenment was an incomplete and often unintended process. Nonetheless, one of the most significant changes in this period was the centering of universal history in Europe, a process that accompanied the desacralization of the story of man. Once human progress was embraced as (...)
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  • Romanticism and the Life of Things: Fossils, Totems, and Images.W. J. T. Mitchell - 2001 - Critical Inquiry 28 (1):167-184.
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