Science Incarnate Historical Embodiments of Natural Knowledge

Name: Science Incarnate Historical Embodiments of Natural Knowledge
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ISBN: 9780226470146

ISBN-10: 0226470148

ISBN-13: 9780226470146

Edition: 1998

Authors: Christopher Lawrence, Steven Shapin

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Ever since Greek antiquity "disembodied knowledge" has often been taken as synonymous with "objective truth." Yet we also have very specific mental images of the kinds of bodies that house great minds--the ascetic philosopher versus the hearty surgeon, for example. Does truth have anything to do with the belly? What difference does it make to the pursuit of knowledge whether Einstein rode a bicycle, Russell was randy, or Darwin flatulent? Bringing body and knowledge into such intimate contact is occasionally seen as funny, sometimes as enraging, and more often just as pointless. Vividly written and well illustrated, Science Incarnate offers concrete historical answers to such skeptical…

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List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 3/28/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 350
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction: The Body of Knowledge




The Philosopher and the Chicken: On the Dietetics of Disembodied Knowledge




A Mechanical Microcosm: Bodily Passions, Good Manners, and Cartesian Mechanism




Regeneration: The Body of Natural Philosophers in Restoration England




Isaac Newton: Lucatello Professor of Mathematics




Medical Minds, Surgical Bodies: Corporeality and the Doctors




A Calculus of Suffering: Ada Lovelace and the Bodily Constraints on Women's Knowledge in Early Victorian England




I Could Have Retched All Night: Charles Darwin and His Body




Exercising the Student Body: Mathematics and Athleticism in Victorian Cambridge



Contributors


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