Knowledge, Power and Nature 1500-1700 - Term 2 Week 4
Seminar Reading
Shapin, Steven, and Schaffer, Simon, Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life (Princeton, 1985), new forword and introduction.
-- or The House of experiment in seventeenth century England, Isis 79 (1988), 373-404
Cook, Harold, ‘Creative Misunderstandings: Chinese Medicine in Seventeenth-Century Europe’, Cultures in Motion. Edited by Daniel T. Rodgers, BhavaniRaman, and Helmut Reimitz, Princeton and Oxford, 2014, 215-240.
Pamela Smith, ‘Knowledge in Motion: Following Itineraries of Matter in the Early Modern World.’ In Cultures in Motion. Edited by Daniel T. Rodgers, Bhavani
Raman, and Helmut Reimitz (Princeton and Oxford 2014), pp. 109-133.
Seminar/Essay Questions
Further Reading
Kuriyama, Shigehisa, The Expressiveness of the Body and the Divergence of Greek and Chinese Medicine (New York, 1999)