Article ID: CBB000070436

Experiment, community, and the constitution of nature in the 17th century (1995)

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Description “Recent literature has explored at some length the transition between individual observations and the experimental facts that they are supposed to establish, emphasizing particularly the social dimension of this question. In this article I examine some crucial stages in the history of this problem, in particular, the way in which the establishment of experimental facts became social. I begin with a brief discussion of experimental facthood in late Renaissance thought before turning to Bacon and Descartes and showing the extent to which their conception of experimental facthood is radically individualistic. I then discuss the self-consciously social conception of experimental facthood found in the writings of the early Royal Society.” From the abstract.


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Authors & Contributors
Lynch, William T.
Lipking, Lawrence
Yeo, Richard R.
Spallanzani, Mariafranca
Solís Santos, Carlos
Sargent, Rose-Mary
Concepts
Science
Societies; institutions; academies
Philosophy of science
Natural philosophy
Philosophy
Science and society
Time Periods
17th century
18th century
16th century
Early modern
19th century
15th century
Places
England
British Isles
Italy
Europe
Great Britain
Institutions
Royal Society of London
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