[Week 8] February 24+26 - Beyond the doctrines of chance and necessary connexion

Presentation: Mariia

How historians learned to love numbers.

Discussion leaders: Pavel & Leon

Assigned reading:

Henry Thomas Buckle, "General introduction," History of Civilization in England, vol. 1, 3rd ed. (1861), 1-18. [Czech translation (PDF)] [German translation] [Hungarian translation (PDF)] [Russian translation] [Polish translation] [French translation] [Italian translation] [There is a 1919 abridged Ukrainian translation]