… in Never Pure: Historical Studies of Science as If it was Produced by People with Bodies, Situated in Time, Space, Culture and Society, and Struggling for Credibility and Authority (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010), p. … influential work A Social History of Truth (1994) presents the Royal Society as a microcosm of genteel society; a culture of civility where birth, wealth, and virtue were connected in the moral economy of scientific knowledge. Given … of the eighteenth century,’ Studies in History and the Philosophy of Science 33 (2002), pp. 265-88; Barbara Shapiro, A Culture of Fact: England, 1550-1720 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2003), p. 4. Also see, Philippa Hellawell, ‘ “The …