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Science incarnate : historical embodiments of natural knowledge / edited by Christopher Lawrence and Steven Shapin.

Contributor(s): Lawrence, Christopher, 1947- | Shapin, Steven
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Chicago, Ill. : The University of Chicago Press, 1998Description: vii, 342 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0226470121 (cloth : alk. paper); 0226470148 (pbk. : alk. paper)Subject(s): Science -- Social aspects | Science -- Philosophy | Mind and bodyDDC classification: 303.48/3 LOC classification: Q175.5 | .S3645 1998Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction: the body of knowledge / Steven Shapin and Christopher Lawrence -- The philosopher and the chicken: on the dietetics of disembodied knowledge / Steven Shapin -- A mechanical microcosm: bodily passions, good manners, and Cartesian mechanism / Peter Dear -- Regeneration: the body of natural philosophers in Restoration England / Simon Schaffer -- Isaac Newton: Lucatello Professor of Mathematics / Rob Iliffe -- Medical minds, surgical bodies: corporeality and the doctors / Christopher Lawrence -- A calculus of suffering: Ada Lovelace and the bodily constraints on women's knowledge in early Victorian England / Alison Winter -- I could have retched all night: Charles Darwin and his body / Janet Browne -- Exercising the student body: mathematics and athleticism in Victorian Cambridge / Andrew Warwick.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: the body of knowledge / Steven Shapin and Christopher Lawrence -- The philosopher and the chicken: on the dietetics of disembodied knowledge / Steven Shapin -- A mechanical microcosm: bodily passions, good manners, and Cartesian mechanism / Peter Dear -- Regeneration: the body of natural philosophers in Restoration England / Simon Schaffer -- Isaac Newton: Lucatello Professor of Mathematics / Rob Iliffe -- Medical minds, surgical bodies: corporeality and the doctors / Christopher Lawrence -- A calculus of suffering: Ada Lovelace and the bodily constraints on women's knowledge in early Victorian England / Alison Winter -- I could have retched all night: Charles Darwin and his body / Janet Browne -- Exercising the student body: mathematics and athleticism in Victorian Cambridge / Andrew Warwick.

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