“A scholar and a gentleman”: The problematic identity of the scientific practitioner in early modern England (1991)
Description “The paper has three parts: in the first, I argue (against some apparent evidence to the contrary) that both the ascribed attributes and aspects of the concrete circumstances of the gentleman and the scholar set them in opposition; in the second, I show that the publicists of the new science attempted to develop a scholarly practice suitable for gentlemen, in the course of which they aimed to re-specify what it was to be a gentleman and what it was to be a scholar; finally, I analyse the obstacles confronted in that attempted respecification, and I ask what the new scientific enterprise looked like from the point of view of genteel society. To this end I turn to sources not commonly used by historians of science and philosophy--the so-called `courtesy' literature which detailed codes of practical conduct and manners for gentlemen.”
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