TY - BOOK ID - 134216303 TI - Instruments of knowledge : finding meaning in objects, habits, and museums PY - 2023 SN - 9789004504608 PB - Leiden ; Boston : Brill, DB - UniCat KW - Scientific apparatus and instruments KW - Science KW - Science museums KW - Museum objects KW - History. KW - History. KW - History. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:134216303 AB - "In a bid to claim 'scientific objects' as requiring a significant amount of conceptual labor, this book looks sequentially at instruments, habits, and museums. The goal is to uncover how, together, these material and immaterial activities, rules, and commitments form one meaningful and credible blueprint revealing the building blocks of knowledge production. They serve to conceptualize and examine the entire life of an instrument: from its ideation and craft to its use, reuse, circulation, recycling, and (if not obliterated) its final entry into a museum. It is such an epistemological triptych that guides this investigation"-- ER -