Description Cook’s magisterial study explores Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s abiding interest in botany and botanical science and the significance of his botanical writings in the context of the history of plant science. She gives a wide-ranging yet […]
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Catching Nature in the Act: Réaumur and the Practice of Natural History in the Eighteenth Century
Description Terrall’s investigation of the eighteenth-century French scientist Réaumur and his circle represents both a fascinating account of the techniques and practices of eighteenth-century naturalists and a stimulating analysis of the production of scientific knowledge […]
Objectivity
Description Daston and Galison write the history of the emergence of scientific objectivity, beginning in the eighteenth century and proceeding into the present day. This magisterial study reveals practices of scientific image-making as constitutive of […]