ABSTRACT
This chapter begins withsome of the lineaments of modern natural science. Needless to say, the question of objectivism theory-free observation, presenting for analysis the world just as it ishas agitated philosophy of science from Hume onwards. For current purposes, however, it is not necessary to follow up that critical thought. It is necessary only to point out the burden that it implies for students of the early-modern period, insofar as this is organized around the emergence of modern natural science. For the trope of discovery, if indeed it was canonized by emergent science for its own purposes, cannot then be deployed neutrally in the attempt to understand emergent science. post modern students of the early-modern have a natural and perhaps ineluctable tendency to bring discovery with us, even as we try to go back behind it. Hermeneutic interdisciplinarity, in conclusion, is the art of the early-modern field.
