Books by Lorraine Daston (1)
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Band of Rivals : How Scientists Learned to Cooperate by Lorraine Daston EN
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United States of America
United States of America
Description:
Why is "the scientific community" so unified? In the last 350-odd years, the international "scientific community" has come to be the bastion of consensus and concerted action, especially in the face of two global crises, disastrous climate change, and a deadly pandemic. How did "the scientific community" come into existence, and why does it work? Rivals is an attempt to answer these questions in the form of a brief historical overview, from the late seventeenth to the early twenty-first centuries, through the creation of two enormous projects--the Carte du Ciel, or the great star map, and the ... continue