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9780791458822

Galileo's Pendulum: Science, Sexuality, and the Body-Instrument Link

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    9780791458822

  • ISBN10:

    0791458822

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2003-10-01
  • Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

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A volume in the SUNY series in Science, Technology, and Society Sal Restivo and Jennifer Croissant, editors

Table of Contents

Foreword by Michael Lynch ix
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction 1(18)
PART ONE. PLEASURE
1. Time, Pleasure, and Knowledge
19(14)
2. The Perversion of Objectivity and the Objectivity of Perversion
33(26)
3. The Jesuits' Homosocial Ties and the Experiments with Galileo's Pendulum
59(22)
PART TWO. PEDAGOGY
4. The "Body-Instrument Link" and the Prism: A Case Study
81(34)
5. The Formal Structure of Galileo's Pendulum
115(14)
6. The Respecification of Galileo's Pendulum
129(24)
Conclusion 153(8)
Notes 161(38)
Index 199

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