Objectivity av Lorraine (Max Planck Institute for History of Science) Daston, Peter (Joseph Pellegrino University Professor Harvard University) Galiso

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<p>Objectivity has a history, and it is full of surprises. In <i>Objectivity</i>, Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison chart the emergence of objectivity in the mid-nineteenth-century sciences ¿ and show how the concept differs from alternatives, truth-to-nature and trained judgment. This is a story of lofty epistemic ideals fused with workaday practices in the making of scientific images.<br><br>From the eighteenth through the early twenty-first centuries, the images that reveal the deepest commitments of the empirical sciences ¿ from anatomy to crystallography ¿ are those featured in scientific atlases: the compendia that teach practitioners of a discipline what is worth looking at and how to look at it. Atlas images define the working objects of the sciences of the eye: snowflakes, galaxies, skeletons, even elementary particles.<br><br>Galison and Daston use atlas images to uncover a hidden history of scientific objectivity and its rivals. Whether an atlas maker idealizes an image to c