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Mot naturen
Hvorfor har mennesker, på tvers av ulike kulturer og epoker, sett til naturen som en kilde til normer? I debatter om alt fra kjønn og seksualitet...
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Classical Probability in the Enlightenment, New Edition
An award-winning history of the Enlightenment quest to devise a mathematical model of rationality
What did it mean to be reasonable in the Age of...
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Science in the Archives
Archives bring to mind rooms filled with old papers and dusty artifacts. But for scientists, the detritus of the past can be a treasure trove of...
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How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind
In the United States at the height of the Cold War, roughly between the end of World War II and the early 1980s, a new project of redefining...
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Histories of Scientific Observation
Observation is the most pervasive and fundamental practice of all the modern sciences, both natural and human. Its instruments include not only the...
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Objectivity
The emergence of objectivity in the mid-nineteenth-century sciences, as revealed through images in scientific atlases-a story of how lofty epistemic...
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Thinking with Animals
Is anthropomorphism a scientific sin? Scientists and animal researchers routinely warn against "animal stories," and contrast rigorous explanations...
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Wonders and the Order of Nature, 1150–1750
A rich exploration of how European naturalists used wonder and wonders (oddities and marvels) to envision and explain the natural world.
Winner of...
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