Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item:
http://hdl.handle.net/2123/7875
|
| Title: | The Body as Object and Instrument of Knowledge:Embodied Empiricism in Early Modern Science |
| Authors: | Gal, Ofer Wolfe, Charles T. |
| Keywords: | Early Modern Science Royal Society of London Baroque Science alchemy Bacon Kepler Galileo Descartes optics Locke chymestry Bulwer medicine anatomy |
| Issue Date: | 2010 |
| Publisher: | Springer |
| Abstract: | It was in 1660s England, according to the received view, in the Royal Society of London, that science acquired the form of empirical enquiry we recognize as our own: an open, collaborative experimental practice, mediated by specially-designed instruments, supported by civil discourse, stressing accuracy and replicability. Guided by the philosophy of Francis Bacon, by Protestant ideas of this worldly benevolence, by gentlemanly codes of decorum and by a dominant interest in mechanics and the mechanical structure of the universe, the members of the Royal Society created a novel experimental practice that superseded former modes of empirical inquiry, from Aristotelian observations to alchemical experimentation. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2123/7875 |
| ISBN: | 978-90-481-3685-8 |
| Appears in Collections: | Research Papers and Publications. Science Research Papers and Publications. HPS |
Files in This Item:
|
Items in Sydney eScholarship Repository are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.