"Jennifer Boulboullé brilliantly revises superficial clichés about Descartes as foundational to French rationality opposed to British practicality, dualism of subject versus object, cogito as purely in the mind, skepticism as his primary method. An experimentalist and vivisectionist, Descartes was prouder of his experiments than his philosophy, and with his correspondents helped devise the ‘literary technology’ that led to the scientific method of the Royal Society. Boulboullé argues that Laboratory Epistemologies begin in touch and the sensory followed by cogito-mathematical consolidations that often erase their empirical origins, and for Descartes required a theological overlay."
-- Michael M. J. Fischer, author of Probing Arts and Emergent Forms of Life