Science incarnate : historical embodiments of natural knowledge
We have specific images of the kinds of bodies that house great minds. Focusing on the 17th century to the present, this book examines how intellectuals have sought to establish the value and authority of their ideas through public displays of their private life.
Print Book, English, 1998
The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Ill., 1998
Seele-Leib-Problem
vii, 342 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780226470122, 9780226470146, 0226470121, 0226470148
37373592
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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