Wrestling with Nature From Omens to Science

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ies in History and Philosophy of Science 29A (1998): 167–94; and The Nature of the Book:
Print and Knowledge in the Making (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998).


  1. William Clark, “On the Bureaucratic Plots of the Research Library,” in Books
    and the Sciences in History, ed. Marina Frasca- Spada and Nick Jardine (Cambridge: Cam-
    bridge University Press, 2000), 196, 200.

  2. Some of these sites are treated in such publications as J. L. Heilbron, The Sun in
    the Church: Cathedrals as Solar Observatories (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press,
    1999); Larry Stewart, “Public Lectures and Private Patronage in Newtonian England,”
    Isis 75 (1986): 47–58; Steve Pincus, “‘Coffee Politicians Does Create’: Coffeehouses
    and Restoration Political Culture,” The Journal of Modern History 67 (1995): 807–83;
    Lynette Schumaker, “A Tent with a View: Colonial Offi cers, Anthropologists, and the
    Making of the Field in Northern Rhodesia, 1937–1960,” Osiris 2nd ser., 11 (1996):
    237–58; James A. Secord, “Darwin and the Breeders: A Social History,” in The Darwin-
    ian Heritage, ed. David Kohn (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1985), 519–42;
    Mario Biagioli and Galileo Courtier, The Practice of Science in the Culture of Absolutism
    (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993); and Iwan Rhys Morus, Frankenstein’s Chil-
    dren: Electricity, Exhibition, and Experiment in Early- Nineteenth Century London (Princeton,
    NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998).

  3. See Steven Shapin, “‘The Mind Is Its Own Place’: Science and Solitude in
    Seventeenth- Century England,” Science in Context 4 (1990): 191–218.

  4. See Deborah E. Harkness, “Managing an Experimental Household: The Dees of
    Mortlake and the Practice of Natural Philosophy,” Isis 88 (1997): 247–62.

  5. Steven Shapin, “The House of Experiment in Seventeenth- Century England,”
    Isis 79 (1988): 373–404.

  6. See Steven Shapin, A Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in Seventeenth
    Century England (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994).

  7. Alexander von Humboldt’s experiments using his own body are recorded in
    Douglas Botting, Humboldt and the Cosmos (London: Sphere Books, 1973), 34, 101,
    153–54.

  8. Jean Antoine Nollet, “An Examination of Certain Phaenomena in Electricity,
    Published in Italy,” Philosophical Transactions 46 (Jan.–Apr. 1750): 377.

  9. Simon Schaffer, “Self Evidence,” Critical Inquiry 18 (1992): 327–62.

  10. See, e.g., Robert N. Proctor, Racial Hygiene: Medicine Under the Nazis (Cambridge,
    MA: Harvard University Press, 1988).

  11. Dorinda Outram, “New Spaces in Natural History,” in Cultures of Natural His-
    tory, ed. N. Jardine, J. A. Secord, and E. C. Spary (Cambridge: Cambridge University
    Press, 1996), 249–65.

  12. Mountains of the Moon, Bob Rafelson (1990; Carolco Pictures).

  13. See Michael J. Heffernan, “‘A Dream as Frail as Those of Ancient Time’: the
    In- Credible Geographies of Timbuctoo,” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space
    19 (2001): 203–25.

  14. This phrase comes from the introduction to the collection of essays drawn
    together by Kuklick and Kohler, Science in the Field, Osiris 2nd ser., 11 (1996).

  15. Henrika Kuklick, The Savage Within: The Social History of British Anthropology,
    1885–1945 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991); and “After Ishmael: The
    Fieldwork Tradition and Its Future,” in Anthropological Location: Boundaries and Grounds


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