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Regeln ordnen fast jeden Aspekt unseres Lebens. Sie legen unsere Arbeitszeiten fest, bestimmen unser Verhalten im Straßenverkehr und ob es angebracht ist, zur Begrüßung die Hand zu geben oder die Wange hinzuhalten. Regeln organisieren die Riten des Lebens von der Geburt bis zum Tod. Nicht alle Regeln, die wir haben, mögen uns gefallen, und manche, die uns abgehen, sehnen wir herbei. Doch keine Kultur kann ohne sie auskommen.

In ihrem reich bebilderten Buch zeichnet die Historikerin Lorraine Daston nach, wie sich Regeln in der westlichen Tradition seit der Antike entwickelt...

Winner of the History of Science Society's Pfizer Prize-This book is about setting the limits of the natural and the limits of the known, wonders and wonder, from the High Middle Ages through the Enlightenment. A history of wonders as objects of natural inquiry is simultaneously an intellectual history of the orders of nature. A history of wonder as a passion of natural inquiry is simultaneously a history of the evolving collective sensibility of naturalists. Pursued in tandem, these interwoven histories show how the two sides of knowledge, objective order and subjective sensibility, were...

What did it mean to be reasonable in the Age of Reason? Classical probabilists from Jakob Bernouli through Pierre Simon Laplace intended their theory as an answer to this question--as "nothing more at bottom than good sense reduced to a calculus," in Laplace's words. In terms that can be easily grasped by nonmathematicians, Lorraine Daston demonstrates how this view profoundly shaped the internal development of probability theory and defined its applications.

Observation is the most pervasive and fundamental practice of all the modern sciences, both natural and human. Its instruments include not only the naked senses but also tools such as the telescope and microscope, the questionnaire, the photographic plate, the notebook, the glassed-in beehive, and myriad other ingenious inventions designed to make the invisible visible, the evanescent permanent, the abstract concrete. Yet observation has almost never been considered as an object of historical inquiry in itself. This wide-ranging collection offers the first examination of the history of...

Imagine a world without things. There would be nothing to describe, nothing to explain, remark, interpret, or complain about. Without things, we would stop speaking; we would become as mute as things are alleged to be. In nine original essays, internationally renowned historians of art and of science seek to understand how objects become charged with significance without losing their gritty materiality. True to the particularity of things, each of the essays singles out one object for close attention: a Bosch drawing, the freestanding column, a Prussian island, soap bubbles, early...

With Science in the Archives, Lorraine Daston and her co-authors offer the first study of the...

Ausgangspunkt dieser zum Standardwerk gewordenen Studie ist ein Kernbegriff der neuzeitlichen Wissenschaft. Objektivität, so zeigt sich, hat eine Geschichte, die voller Überraschungen steckt. Lorraine Daston und Peter Galison zeichnen sie nach, vom 18. Jahrhundert bis in die Gegenwart, und zeigen unter anderem, dass die Herausbildung eines solchen erkenntnistheoretischen Ideals mit alltäglichen Praktiken der Herstellung wissenschaftlicher Bilder einhergeht. Ihr opulent illustriertes Buch richtet sich an alle, die sich für den wissenschaftshistorisch wie wissenschaftstheoretisch...