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Biographies of scientific objects /

0226136701 (cloth : alk. paper)

0226136728 (pbk. : alk. paper)

b410787

Biographies of scientific objects /

[Book]

edited by Lorraine Daston

Chicago :

University of Chicago Press,

c2000

ix, 307 p. :

ill. ;

24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index

The coming into being of scientific objects / Lorraine Daston -- Preternatural philosophy / Lorraine Daston -- Mathematical entities in scientific discourse: Paulus Guldin and his Dissertatio de motu terrae / Rivka Feldhay -- Dreams and self-consciousness: mapping the mind in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries / Doris Kaufmann -- Mutations of the self in old regime and postrevolutionary France: from ame to moi to le moi / Jan Goldstein -- The coming into being and passing away of value theories in economics (1776-1976) / Gérard Jorland -- "An entirely new object of consciousness, of volition, of thought": the coming into being and (almost) passing away of "society" as a scientific object / Peter Wagner -- "Sentimental pessimism" and ethnographic experience: or, why culture is not a disappearing "object" / Marshall Sahlins -- How the ether spawned the microworld / Jed Z. Buchwald -- Life insurance, medical testing, and the management of mortality / Theodore M. Porter -- On the partial existence of existing and nonexisting objects / Bruno Latour -- Cytoplasmic particles: the trajectory of a scientific object / Hans-Jörg Rheinberger

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Discoveries in science

Discoveries in science-- History

Knowledge, Theory of

Science-- History

Science-- Philosophy

Scientism

Scientism-- History

Daston, Lorraine,1951-

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