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2. Charles Taylor, Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1989);
3. Amos Funkenstein, Theology and the Scientific Imagination from the Middle Ages to the Seventeenth Century (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986);
4. and Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason (New York: W. W. Norton, 2003).
5. John E. Leary, Jr., Francis Bacon and the Politics of Science (Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1994), 146.