{"product_id":"objectivity-in-the-making-julie-robin-solomon-9780801872495","title":"Objectivity in the Making: Francis Bacon and the Politics of Inquiry","description":"\u003cp\u003eHow we arrived at a capacity for taking cold, hard looks at the facts of nature--and whether we ever truly have done so--are questions that continue to engage both historians of science and students of culture. Historians of modern European intellectual history commonly credit Francis Bacon with laying the groundwork for a mode of study that begins without presuppositions, religious or otherwise, the kind of searching we know as research and long have credited as being \"disinterested.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eObjectivity in the Making\u003c\/i\u003e, Julie Robin Solomon shows how \"disinterestedness\" became a dominant principle of intellectual modernity by examining Bacon's notion of scientific self-distancing against the background of early modern political ideology, socioeconomic behavior, and traditions of learning. Solomon places him between two cultures--Jacobean monarchical mercantilism and the self-distancing strategies of early-seventeenth-century traders and travelers. She shows that Bacon--by virtue of his prominent political position within the Jacobean court, familiarity with prevailing commercial practices, and humanistic learning--made his signal contributions to natural philosophy because of where he stood at a critical juncture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Julie Robin Solomon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0801872499\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780801872495\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Johns Hopkins University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 344\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.02h x 6.18w x 0.85d","brand":"Julie Robin Solomon","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44059738112255,"sku":"9780801872495","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_fb743a5f-9c70-4769-bfed-6e4affc444eb.jpg?v=1685060036","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/objectivity-in-the-making-julie-robin-solomon-9780801872495","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}