Galileo's pendulum
Subtitle: science, sexuality, and the body-instrument link
By: Dušan I. Bjelić ; foreword by Michael Lynch
Series: SUNY series in science, technology, and society
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 205
Subjects: Galilei, Galileo, -- 1564-1642; Science -- Methodology; Ethnomethodology; Pendulum
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index