TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shapin,Steven
TI  - A social history of truth: civility and science in seventeenth-century England 
T2  - Science and its conceptual foundations
SN  - 0226750183
AV  - Q175.52.G7 S48 1994
U1  - 306.45094109032 
PY  - 1994///]
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Science
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - England
KW  - History
KW  - 17th century
KW  - Moral and ethical aspects
N1  - 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
ER  -