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Galileo’s Pendulum
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SUNY series in Science, Technology, and Society
Sal Restivo and Jennifer Croissant, editors
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GALILEO’S PENDULUM
Science, Sexuality,
and the Body-Instrument Link
Dus=an I. Bjelic;
Foreword by Michael Lynch
State University of New York Press
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Bjelic, Dusan I.
Galileo’s pendulum : science, sexuality, and the body-instrument link / Dusan I. Bjelic.
p. cm. —(SUNY series in science, technology, and society)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-7914-5881-4 (hc : alk. paper) — ISBN 0-7914-5882-2 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. Science—Methodology. 2. Ethnomethodology. 3. Pendulum. 4. Galilei, Galileo,
1564–1642. I. Title. II. Series.
2003
501—dc22
2003058124
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Contents
Foreword by Michael Lynch ix
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction 1
PART ONE. PLEASURE
1. Time, Pleasure, and Knowledge 19
2. The Perversion of Objectivity and the Objectivity of Perversion 33
3. Th