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We have specific images of the kinds of bodies that house great minds. Focusing on the 17th century to the present, this book examines how intellectuals have sought to establish the value and authority of their ideas through public displays of their private life.

Science Incarnate Historical Embodiments of

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    A Paperback / softback by Christopher Lawrence, Steven Shapin

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      Publisher The University of Chicago Press
      Published 28 March 1998
      ISBN-13 9780226470146
      978-0226470146
      ISBN-10 0226470148
      Also in:
      Sociology and anthropology History of science

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      Book Synopsis
      We have specific images of the kinds of bodies that house great minds. Focusing on the 17th century to the present, this book examines how intellectuals have sought to establish the value and authority of their ideas through public displays of their private life.

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