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" Biographies of scientific objects / "
edited by Lorraine Daston
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BL
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581568
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GB99-V9792b410787
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| Title & Author
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Biographies of scientific objects /\ edited by Lorraine Daston
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| Publication Statement
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Chicago :: University of Chicago Press,, c2000
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ix, 307 p. :: ill. ;; 24 cm
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0226136701 (cloth : alk. paper)
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: 0226136728 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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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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Knowledge, Theory of
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Science-- Philosophy
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Science-- History
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Scientism
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Scientism-- History
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Discoveries in science
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Discoveries in science-- History
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| Dewey Classification
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121
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| LC Classification
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Q175.32.K45B56 2000
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| Added Entry
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Daston, Lorraine,1951-
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