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Strategy of Life
Teleology and Mechanics in Nineteenth-Century German Biology
Häftad, 1989
383 kr
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In the early nineteenth century, a group of German biologists led by Johann Friedrich Blumenbach and Karl Friedrich Kielmeyer initiated a search for laws of biological organization that would explain the phenomena of form and function and establish foundations for a unified theory of life. The …
Inscribing Science
Scientific Texts and the Materiality of Communication
Häftad, 1998
573 kr
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Metaphors of inscription and writing figure prominently in all levels of discourse in and about science. The description of nature as a book written in the language of mathematics has been a common trope since at least the time of Galileo, a metaphor supplemented in our own day by the …
Instituting Science
The Cultural Production of Scientific Disciplines
Häftad, 1997
414 kr
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Early practitioners of the social studies of science turned their attention away from questions of institutionalization, which had tended to emphasize macrolevel explanations, and attended instead to microstudies of laboratory practice. Though sympathetic to this approach—as the microstudies …
