>It may be a lack of context or familiarity with the subject matter,
>but reading the paragraph quoted above causes me to have the following
>as a reaction:

It's not quite as bad as that if you're coming to it in the middle of a study of the Enlightenment in general, and you have some context for the other stuff he's citing - there is some there there if you know where to dig - but it's still pretty damn rough sledding, particularly as we have read neither Foucault nor Shapin and so can only glark from context what he's on about when he mentions them.

--G.
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