Objectivity by Lorraine Daston, Peter Galison

501 pages first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy science challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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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 Ob...

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