Course Reader

Deborah Harkness, "'Strange Ideas' and 'English' Knowledge: Natural Science Exchange in Elizabethan London," in Merchants and Marvels: Commerce, Science, and Art in Early Modern Europe, ed. Pamela H. Smith and Paula Findlen (New York: Routledge, 2001), pp. 137-160.

Peter Dear, "Totius in verba: Rhetoric and Authority in the Early Royal Society" Isis 76 (1985): 145-161.

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

Mario Biagioli, "Reading the Book of Nature," Modern Language Notes (forthcoming).

Matthew L. Jones, "Descartes's Geometry as Spiritual Exercise," Critical Inquiry 28 (2001): 40-71.

Steven Shapin and Simon Schaffer, Leviathan and the Air-Pump (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985), pp. 110-151.

Paula Findlen, "The Janus Faces of Science in the Seventeenth Century: Athanasius Kircher and Isaac Newton," in Rethinking the Scientific Revolution, ed. Margeret Osler (Cambridge, U. K.: Cambridge University Press, 2000), pp. 221-246.

Londa Schiebinger, "Maria Winkelmann at the Berlin Academy: A Turning Point for Women in Science," Isis 78 (1987): 174-200.

Paula Findlen, "Becoming a Scientist: Gender and Knowledge in Enlightenment Italy," Science in Context (forthcoming).