Objectivity by Lorraine Daston, Peter Galison
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Overview: The emergence of objectivity in the mid-nineteenth-century sciences, as revealed through images in scientific atlases–a story of how lofty epistemic ideals fuse with workaday practices.
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.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Educational
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