03391nam a22005055i 4500 978-3-031-75849-2 DE-He213 20251030114936.0 cr nn 008mamaa 250131s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031758492 978-3-031-75849-2 10.1007/978-3-031-75849-2 doi DA1-995 HBJD1 bicssc HIS015000 bisacsh NHD 1DD thema Swann, Elizabeth L. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 80378 Science as Child’s Play in Seventeenth-Century England [electronic resource] : Innocence, Experience, Experiment / by Elizabeth L. Swann. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. XIII, 144 p. 7 illus. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda 1. Introduction: 'No babes, but strong men'? -- 2. 'Flesh most fluid': Children’s Senses -- 3. 'Too young to be dogmaticall': Innocence and Objectivity -- 4. Nature’s A.B.C. and the 'Toyish Art' of the Microscope -- 5. Bubbles, Popguns, Lizard’s Tails: Play as Experiment -- 6. 'A compendious way to Experience: Innocence Regained' -- 7. Conclusion. In recent decades, scholars have uncovered the vital contributions made by non-elite figures, including women, artisans, and indigenous peoples, to the development of early modern natural philosophy. This Palgrave Pivot argues that children, too, quite literally played a decisive role in seventeenth-century experimental science in England, both as rhetorical exemplars, and as active contributors in the generation of natural knowledge. Exploring a widespread but critically-neglected connection between experiment and child’s play, it both illuminates the extent to which children participated – intentionally or incidentally – in natural historical and experimental activities, and investigates how ideas about childish innocence and sensory receptivity informed the nascent ideology of scientific objectivity. In the work of figures associated with the early Royal Society, this book proposes, children emerge as instinctive empiricists and experimenters, setting in motion a broader cultural transformation in ideas about childhood and education which still shapes how we think about these things today. Elizabeth L. Swann is Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Literary Studies at Durham University, UK. Great Britain History. 66701 Science History. 65232 Europe History 1492-. 68968 History of Britain and Ireland. 66703 History of Science. 66101 History of Early Modern Europe. 68969 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031758485 Printed edition: 9783031758508 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-75849-2 ZDB-2-HTY ZDB-2-SXH 66589 66589