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

Title
Galileo's pendulum : science, sexuality, and the body-instrument link / Dušan I. Bjelić.
Author
Bjelić, Dušan I.
Publication
Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2003.

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Description
xv, 205 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
Summary
"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.
Series Statement
SUNY series in science, technology, and society
Uniform Title
SUNY series in science, technology, and society.
Subject
  • Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642
  • Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642
  • Science > Methodology
  • Ethnomethodology
  • Pendulum
  • 30.01 history of the exact sciences
  • Natuurwetenschappen
  • Menselijk lichaam
  • Seksualiteit
  • Experimenten
  • Slingerbeweging
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-198) and index.
Contents
I: Pleasure -- Time, pleasure, and knowledge -- The perversion of objectivity and the objectivity of perversion -- The Jesuits' homosocial ties and the experiments with Galileo's pendulum -- II: Pedagogy -- The "body-instrument link" and the prism: a case study -- The formal structure of Galileo's pendulum -- The respecification of Galileo's pendulum.
ISBN
  • 0791458814
  • 9780791458815
  • 0791458822
  • 9780791458822
LCCN
2003058124
OCLC
  • ocm52714637
  • 52714637
  • SCSB-9645679
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library