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A social history of truth : civility and science in seventeenth-century England / Steven Shapin.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Science and its conceptual foundationsPublisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [1994]Copyright date: ©1994Description: xxxi, 483 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0226750183
  • 9780226750187
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.45094109032
LOC classification:
  • Q175.52.G7 S48 1994
Contents:
List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Genres, Disciplines, and Conventions -- The Argument Summarized -- 1. The Great Civility: Trust, Truth, and Moral Order -- 2. "Who Was Then a Gentleman?" Integrity and Gentle Identity in Early Modern England -- 3. A Social History of Truth-Telling: Knowledge, Social Practice, and the Credibility of Gentlemen -- 4. Who Was Robert Boyle? The Creation and Presentation of an Experimental Identity -- 5. Epistemological Decorum: The Practical Management of Factual Testimony -- 6. Knowing about People and Knowing about Things: A Moral History of Scientific Credibility -- 7. Certainty and Civility: Mathematics and Boyle's Experimental Conversation -- 8. Invisible Technicians: Masters, Servants, and the Making of Experimental Knowledge -- Epilogue: The Way We Live Now -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 419-465) and index.

List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Genres, Disciplines, and Conventions -- The Argument Summarized -- 1. The Great Civility: Trust, Truth, and Moral Order -- 2. "Who Was Then a Gentleman?" Integrity and Gentle Identity in Early Modern England -- 3. A Social History of Truth-Telling: Knowledge, Social Practice, and the Credibility of Gentlemen -- 4. Who Was Robert Boyle? The Creation and Presentation of an Experimental Identity -- 5. Epistemological Decorum: The Practical Management of Factual Testimony -- 6. Knowing about People and Knowing about Things: A Moral History of Scientific Credibility -- 7. Certainty and Civility: Mathematics and Boyle's Experimental Conversation -- 8. Invisible Technicians: Masters, Servants, and the Making of Experimental Knowledge -- Epilogue: The Way We Live Now -- Bibliography -- Index.

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