mddm (3): in brute contempt for any language

[Dave Monroe]

Oops, screwed up (quelle surprise ...).  Has been pointed out to me that I 
should have credited Timothy Lenoir (The Strategy of Life: Teleology and 
Mechanics in Nineteenth Century German Biology; Instituting Science: The 
Cultural Production of Scientific Disciplines) and Sha Xin Wei of Stanford 
University for putting that chapter from ...

>Shapin, Steven and Simon Schaffer.  Leviathan and the Air-Pump:
>    Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life.  Princeton, NJ:
>    Princeton UP, 1985.
>
>Ch. 2, "Seeing and Believing: The Experimental Production of
>Pneumatic Facts," pp. 22-79 ...
>
http://www.stanford.edu/class/history34q/readings/ShapinSchaffer/ShapinSchaffer_Seeing.html

... on the web and sparing me no end of typing.  So, hey, thanks, guys.  
Nonetheless, everybody, do check out Roger Hart's page as well ...

"I work in the history of science and Chinese history, specializing in the 
history of Chinese mathematics. My other research interests include critical 
theory and early (pre-Qin) Chinese philosophy.

"Currently I am completing a book manuscript 'Western Learning' in 
Seventeenth-Century China: A Microhistorical Approach to World History. In 
it I examine Chinese mathematics as forms of local knowledge in cultural 
context, analyze the introduction into China of Euclidean mathematical 
proofs contextualized as Jesuit religious propaganda, and ultimately argue 
that 'Western Learning' was legitimated by the successful patronage 
strategies of the Chinese converts.  I am also currently working on an 
edited volume Cultural Studies of Chinese Science, Technology, and 
Medicine."

http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~hisweb/hart/

See, e.g. ...

http://home.uchicago.edu/~rphart/papers/QuantifyingRitual.html

http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~hisweb/hart/courses/CriticalStudies/

http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~hisweb/hart/courses-Stanford/ChinMed/

http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~hisweb/hart/courses-Stanford/ChinSciTechMed/

I think you all can see something here might be of some use later on in 
Mason & Dixon (and we've already had the Learned English Dog singing of 
"Chinamen's Geo-mancy" [p. 18]).  A serendipitous mistake, at worst.  Thanks 
again, Professor Hart ...

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