Download or read book The Science of Conjecture written by James Franklin and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2002-08-23 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A magisterial acount of matters as diverse as the Talmud, Justinian's Digest, torture, witch hunts, Tudor treason trials, ancient and medieval astronomy and physics, humanist historiography, scholastic philosophy, speculations in public debt, and 17th century mathematics." -- International Journal of Evidence and Proof