@inbook{65e442de3d044ed2932b386537146716,
title = "Embodied Empiricism",
abstract = "It was in 1660s England, according to the received view, in the meetings of the Royal Society of London, that science acquired the form of empirical enquiry that we recognize as our own: an open, collaborative experimental practice, mediated by specially-designed instruments, supported by civil, critical discourse, stressing accuracy and replicability. Guided by the philosophy of Francis Bacon, by Protestant ideas of this-worldly benevolence, by gentlemanly codes of decorum and integrity and by a dominant interest in mechanics and a conviction in the mechanical structure of the universe, the members of the Royal Society created a novel experimental practice that superseded all former modes of empirical inquiry – from Aristotelian observations to alchemical experimentation.",
keywords = "Early Modern Period, Experimental Philosophy, Receive View, Royal Society, Seventeenth Century",
author = "Wolfe, {Charles T.} and Ofer Gal",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2010, Springer Science+Business Media B.V.",
year = "2010",
month = jan,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1007/978-90-481-3686-5_1",
language = "English",
series = "Studies in History and Philosophy of Science(Netherlands)",
publisher = "Springer Science and Business Media B.V.",
pages = "1--5",
booktitle = "Studies in History and Philosophy of Science(Netherlands)",
address = "Germany",
}