Preface 1. Lowering the Tone in the History of Science: A Noble Calling Part I: Methods and Maxims 2. Cordelia's Love: Credibility and the Social Studies of Science 3. How to Be Antiscientific 4. Science and Prejudice in Historical Perspective Part II: Places and Practices 5. The House of Experiment in Seventeenth-century England 6. Pump and Circumstance: Robert Boyle's Literary Technology Part III: The Scientific Person 7. ""The Mind Is Its Own Place"": Science and Solitude in Seventeenth-century England 8.

""A Scholar and a Gentleman"": The Problematic Identity of the Scientific Practitioner in Seventeenth-century England 9. Who Was Robert Hooke? 10. Who Is the Industrial Scientist? Commentary from Academic Sociology and from the Shop Floor in the United States, ca. 1900-ca. 1970 Part IV: The Body of Knowledge and the Knowledge of Body 11. The Philosopher and the Chicken: On the Dietetics of Disembodied Knowledge 12. How to Eat Like a Gentleman: Dietetics and Ethics in Early Modern England Part V: The World of Science and the World of Common Sense 13. Trusting George Cheyne: Scientific Expertise, Common Sense, and Moral Authority in Early Eighteenth-century Dietetic Medicine 14.

Proverbial Economies: How an Understanding of Some Linguistic and Social Features of Common Sense Can Throw Light on More Prestigious Bodies of Knowledge, Science for Example 15. Descartes the Doctor: Rationalism and Its Therapies Part VI: Science and Modernity 16. Science and the Modern World Notes Index.