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Image and logic : a material culture of microphysics
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ISBN: 0226279170 Year: 1997 Publisher: Chicago London University of Chicago Press

How experiments end
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ISBN: 0226279154 0226279146 9780226279145 9780226279152 Year: 1987 Publisher: Chicago (Ill.): University of Chicago press,


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L'empire du temps : les horloges d'Einstein et les cartes de Poincaré
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ISBN: 2070319245 Year: 2006 Volume: 476 Publisher: Paris : Gallimard,

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Objectivity
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ISBN: 9781890951788 1890951781 1942130619 189095179X 9781890951795 Year: 2010 Publisher: New York: Zone books,

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Objectivity has a history, and it is full of surprises. In Objectivity, Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison chart the emergence of objectivity in the mid-nineteenth-century sciences—and show how the concept differs from its alternatives, truth-to-nature and trained judgment. This is a story of lofty epistemic ideals fused with workaday practices in the making of scientific images. From the eighteenth through the early twenty-first centuries, the images that reveal the deepest commitments of the empirical sciences—from anatomy to crystallography—are those featured in scientific atlases, the compendia that teach practitioners what is worth looking at and how to look at it. Galison and Daston use atlas images to uncover a hidden history of scientific objectivity and its rivals. Whether an atlas maker idealizes an image to capture the essentials in the name of truth-to-nature or refuses to erase even the most incidental detail in the name of objectivity or highlights patterns in the name of trained judgment is a decision enforced by an ethos as well as by an epistemology. As Daston and Galison argue, atlases shape the subjects as well as the objects of science. To pursue objectivity—or truth-to-nature or trained judgment—is simultaneously to cultivate a distinctive scientific self wherein knowing and knower converge. Moreover, the very point at which they visibly converge is in the very act of seeing not as a separate individual but as a member of a particular scientific community. Embedded in the atlas image, therefore, are the traces of consequential choices about knowledge, persona, and collective sight. Objectivity is a book addressed to anyone interested in the elusive and crucial notion of objectivity—and in what it means to peer into the world scientifically.


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Ainsi s'achèvent les expériences : la place des expériences dans la physique du XXe siècle
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ISSN: 09937226 ISBN: 2707135607 9782707135605 Year: 2002 Publisher: Paris: La Découverte,

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L'empire du temps : les horloges d'Einstein et les cartes de Poincaré
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ISBN: 9782221102220 2221102223 Year: 2005 Publisher: Paris: Laffont,


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Big science : the growth of large-scale research
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ISBN: 0804723354 Year: 1999 Publisher: Stanford (Calif.): Stanford university press

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Big science : the growth of large-scale research
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ISBN: 0804718792 Year: 1992 Publisher: Stanford (Calif.): Stanford university press

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Atmospheric flight in the twentieth century
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Year: 2000 Publisher: Dordrecht : Kluwer academic publishers,

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Picturing science, producing art
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ISBN: 0415919126 0415919118 9780415919128 9780415919111 9780203699942 9781135207502 9781135207458 9781135207496 Year: 1998 Publisher: New York: Routledge,

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The internationally renowned contributors go beyond both science wars and culture wars by exploring substantive links between systems of visual representation and knowledge in science and art. Contributors include Svetlana Alpers, Jonathan Crary, Arnold Davidson, Carlo Ginzburg, Donna Haraway, Bruno Latour, and Simon Schaffer.

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