- Hardcover: 542 pages
- Publisher: Zone Books (2 Nov 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1890951781
- ISBN-13: 978-1890951788
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15.9 x 4.5 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 475,661 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"As Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison point out in their capacious and engaging study of the concept of scientific objectivity from the 17th century to the present day, the universal form is key to understanding how modern science moved from the study of curiosities, through the representations of perfect, notional specimens, to a concept of objectivity as responsibility for science." Brian Dillon Modern Painters "The author's argument here is complicated but fascinating (and, because the argument is about images, the book is beautiful)." Science "This is a surprising, engrossing book that treats humanity's struggle to unsnarl the world and itself as a field of endless turmoil and fascination." Rain Taxi "We need history of science in the style of Daston and Galison: a history of science that commands the details but at the same time discerns the shape of larger developmentsand that makes us realize just how many meanings have been packed into the little word 'objectivity,' which rolls so trippingly off the tongue." Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
-Bruno Latour, author of Politics of Nature: How to Bring the Sciences into Democracy
"This richly illustrated book deeply renews the meaning of accurate reproduction by showing how many ways there have been to be `true to nature.' Art, science, and reproduction techniques are merged to show that `things in themselves' can be presented with their vast and beautiful company. This splendid book will be for many years the ultimate compendium on the joint history of objectivity and visualization."
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a new way to see objectivity
1 Sep 2009
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This is the best book I have read in a decade. It is breathtaking in its scope and its depth of detail. Seeing objectivity as it is depicted in scientific atlases provides a new image of objectivity and a new understanding of the history of its evolution.
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insight
2 Jun 2010
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
Four versions of "seeing" scientifically are succinctly summarized (pp. 412-413):
18th century (classical) "four-eyed" sight -- truth-to-nature depiction;
19th century "blind" sight of mechanical objectivity;
20th century "physiognomic" sight of "trained" judgment;
where the first three give way to "haptic" sight by means of image-as-tool, inseparable from the scientific-self, made visible to the acolyte:
--subject to simulated manipulations
--machine-generated virtual artifact, expertly extracted from an artificial reality -- a model
--altered in aspect, hue, or scale to make it artistically pleasing
--no longer held to be a copy
--the True and Beautiful necessarily converging for the sake of presentation -- not representation
--deliberately enhanced to clarify, persuade, and/or please.
Daston is the new Mary Hesse.
18th century (classical) "four-eyed" sight -- truth-to-nature depiction;
19th century "blind" sight of mechanical objectivity;
20th century "physiognomic" sight of "trained" judgment;
where the first three give way to "haptic" sight by means of image-as-tool, inseparable from the scientific-self, made visible to the acolyte:
--subject to simulated manipulations
--machine-generated virtual artifact, expertly extracted from an artificial reality -- a model
--altered in aspect, hue, or scale to make it artistically pleasing
--no longer held to be a copy
--the True and Beautiful necessarily converging for the sake of presentation -- not representation
--deliberately enhanced to clarify, persuade, and/or please.
Daston is the new Mary Hesse.
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