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.
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Acknowledgments Introduction: The Body of Knowledge by Steven Shapin and Christopher Lawrence 1: The Philosopher and the Chicken: On the Dietetics of Disembodied Knowledge Steven Shapin 2: A Mechanical Microcosm: Bodily Passions, Good Manners, and Cartesian Mechanism Peter Dear 3: Regeneration: The Body of Natural Philosophers in Restoration England Simon Schaffer 4: Isaac Newton: Lucatello Professor of Mathematics Rob Iliffe 5: Medical Minds, Surgical Bodies: Corporeality and the Doctors Christopher Lawrence 6: A Calculus of Suffering: Ada Lovelace and the Bodily Constraints on Women's Knowledge in Early Victorian England Alison Winter 7: I Could Have Retched All Night: Charles Darwin and His Body Janet Browne 8: Exercising the Student Body: Mathematics and Athleticism in Victorian Cambridge Andrew Warwick Contributors Index