Objectivity

by Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison

Book 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 189095179X
• ISBN13: 9781890951795
• Release Date: July 2010
• Publisher: Zone Books
• Length: 504 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher