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Grasping the Body: Physicians, Tailors, and Holy People
Technology and Culture ( IF 0.7 ) Pub Date : 2021-06-04
Simona Valeriani

abstract:

This article argues for the importance of material practices and the agency of objects in forming and validating knowledge in early modern Britain. They played a crucial role in the development of technological and scientific culture, as part of a process of appropriation of knowledge, skills, and methods from artisans. Despite this importance, they have so far been largely overlooked. Moreover, this article demonstrates how the belief that "scientific" observations could be communicated reliably and certified through specific objects was rooted in religious and mythicized practices. It discusses the mid-seventeenth-century case of the provincial physician William Durston. To prove his knowledge was reliable, he submitted the tapes used to measure his patients together with witness accounts to the Royal Society in London. This article adds to current debates around Useful and Reliable Knowledge in Europe and shows how different kinds of knowledge and actors shaped the Western path to "modernity."



中文翻译:

把握身体:医生、裁缝和圣人

摘要:

本文论证了物质实践的重要性,以及在现代早期英国形成和验证知识的对象机构。作为从工匠那里获取知识、技能和方法的过程的一部分,它们在技术和科学文化的发展中发挥了至关重要的作用。尽管如此重要,但迄今为止,它们在很大程度上被忽视了。此外,本文还展示了“科学”观察可以通过特定对象可靠地传达和验证的信念是如何植根于宗教和神话化实践的。它讨论了 17 世纪中叶的省级医生威廉·德斯顿 (William Durston) 的案例。为了证明他的知识是可靠的,他向伦敦皇家学会提交了用于测量他的病人的磁带以及目击者的证词。

更新日期:2021-06-04
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