“A historian must combine the rigor of a scientist with the imagination of the artist.” To what extend, then, can the historian be confident about his or her conclusions?
Title: “A historian must combine the rigor of a scientist with the imagination of the artist.” To what extend, then, can the historian be confident about his or her conclusions?
Category: /Literature/English
Details: Words: 1603 | Pages: 6 (approximately 235 words/page)
“A historian must combine the rigor of a scientist with the imagination of the artist.” To what extend, then, can the historian be confident about his or her conclusions?
Category: /Literature/English
Details: Words: 1603 | Pages: 6 (approximately 235 words/page)
“A historian must combine the rigor of a scientist with the imagination of the artist.” To what extend, then, can the historian be confident about his or her conclusions?
History has always been a subject that is looked upon by many as a very controversial and biased one. In History people can have disagreements. One historian can believe that an event in the past happened in a certain way while another can think it happened …showed first 75 words of 1603 total…
You are viewing only a small portion of the paper.
Please login or register to access the full copy.
Please login or register to access the full copy.
…showed last 75 words of 1603 total…scientific manner, but at the same time he has to use his artist’s imagination to fill in the missing pieces to end up with a conclusion that gives the most probable way an event occurred. Due to this, a historian can not be absolutely confident about the way an event occurred, but he can be confident that he came up with a reasonable and for his purposes accurate enough conclusion of an events occurrence.