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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. The Jesuits’ Homosocial Ties and the Experiments with Galileo’s Pendulum 59 PART TWO. PEDAGOGY 4. The “Body-Instrument Link” and the Prism: A Case Study 81 5. The Formal Structure of Galileo’s Pendulum 115 6. The Respecification of Galileo’s Pendulum 129 Conclusion 153 Notes 161 Index 199 vii C o n t e n t s ...

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