Galileo's pendulum : science, sexuality, and the body-instrument link /

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"Drawing on the theories of Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, and others who have written on the history of sexuality and the body, Galileo's Pendulum explores how the emergence of the scientific method in the seventeenth century led to a de-emphasis on the body and sexuality."--Jacket

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Bjelić, Dušan I.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2003.
Series:SUNY series in science, technology, and society.
Subjects:
Galilei, Galileo, > 1564-1642.
Galilei, Galileo, > 1564-1642
Science > Methodology.
Ethnomethodology.
Pendulum.
Sciences > Méthodologie.
Ethnométhodologie.
Pendule.
SCIENCE > Philosophy & Social Aspects.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: Foreword / Michael Lynch
  • pt. 1 Pleasure
  • 1. Time, Pleasure, and Knowledge
  • 2. Perversion of Objectivity and the Objectivity of Perversion
  • 3. Jesuits' Homosocial Ties and the Experiments with Galileo's Pendulum
  • pt. 2 Pedagogy
  • 4. "Body-Instrument Link" and the Prism: A Case Study
  • 5. Formal Structure of Galileo's Pendulum
  • 6. Respecification of Galileo's Pendulum.

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