Autonomous Nature : Problems of Prediction and Control From Ancient Times to the Scientific Revolution by Merchant Carolyn

Author:Merchant, Carolyn [Carolyn Merchant]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 2194993
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2015-10-10T20:25:52+00:00

See also Thomas Henry Huxley, “On the Advisableness of Improving Natural Knowledge,” A Lay Sermon delivered in St. Martin’s Hall on Sunday, January 7th, 1866, and subsequently published in the “Fortnightly Review,” p. 11 (1866), in Collected Essays (New York: D. Appleton, 1896), vol. 1. On the Royal Society and the subsequent history of natural knowledge, see Jan Golinski, Making Natural Knowledge: Constructivism and the History of Science, 2nd ed. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005).

29 John B. West, “Robert Boyle’s Landmark Book of 1660 with the First Experiments on Rarified Air,” Journal of Applied Physiology 98, no. 1 (January 2005): 31–39, see p. 37; Robert Boyle, New Experiments Physico-Mechanicall, Touching the Spring of the Air, and its effects, made, for the most part, in a new pneumatical engine, etc. (Oxford: H. Hall, for Tho. Robinson, 1660).

30 Dorothy Stimson, Scientists and Amateurs: A History of the Royal Society (New York: Schuman, 1948), pp. 84–86; Steven Shapin and Simon Schaffer, Leviathan and the Air Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1985), pp. 32, 121–122, 346–347; Thomas Sprat, History of the Royal Society, ed. Jackson I. Cope and Whitemore Jones (St. Louis: Washington University Press, 1958), pp. 218–219.

31 Lorraine Daston, “Unruly Weather: Natural Law Confronts Natural Variability,” in Natural Law and Laws of Nature in Early Modern Europe, ed. Lorraine Daston and Michael Stolleis (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2008), Ch. 14, pp. 233–248; see p. 237, quotation from Boyle on p. 233; Robert Boyle, General History of the Air (London: Awnsham and John Churchill, 1692).

32 Daston, “Unruly Weather,” p. 236; Oxford English Dictionary, cf. “meteor”; Bacon, New Atlantis, op cit.

33 Geoffrey Parker, Global Crisis: War, Climate Change, and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2013), pp. xv–xxv, 3, quotation on p. xv.

34 Daston, “Unruly Weather,” pp. 237–241.

35 Daston, “Unruly Weather,” pp. 241–248, quotation on p. 248; Jan Golinski, British Weather and the Climate of Enlightenment (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007), p. 2.

36 Daryn Lehoux, “Laws of Nature and Natural Laws,” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 37 (2006): 527–549, esp. pp. 527–531.

37 Cicero. Laws [De Legibus], trans. C. W. Keyes, Loeb Classical Library (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1970), vol. 16, pp. 297–369, quotation from Bk. I, Ch. V, sec. 18–19, pp. 317, 319; Aquinas, Summa Theologica, in Selected Writings, ed. and trans. Ralph McInerny (New York: Penguin, 1998), “On Law and Natural Law,” IaIIae 90–94, pp. 611–652.

38 Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan (Aalen, Germany: Scientia, 1966 [1651]), Part 1, Ch. 14 (quotation); John Locke, Two Treatises of Government, ed. Thomas I. Cook (New York: Hafner Press, 1973 [1690]), Second Treatise, Ch. 2, “Of the State of Nature,” sec. 6 (quotation), Ch. 13, sec. 149.

39 Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution (San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1980), pp. 225–226, 288, 290; David Kubrin, “How Sir Isaac Newton Helped Restore Law ‘n’ Order to the West,” Liberation 16, no. 10 (Mar. 1972): 32–41.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.