Instruments of Knowledge: Finding Meaning in Objects, Habits, and Museums - Couverture rigide

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Gauvin, Jean-François

 
9789004504608: Instruments of Knowledge: Finding Meaning in Objects, Habits, and Museums
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 9004504605 ISBN 13 : 9789004504608
Editeur : Brill, 2023

Synopsis

In a bid to claim 'scientific objects' as requiring a significant amount of conceptual labor, this book looks sequentially at instruments, habits, and museums. The goal is to uncover how, together, these material and immaterial activities, rules, and commitments form one meaningful and credible blueprint revealing the building blocks of knowledge production. They serve to conceptualize and examine the entire life of an instrument: from its ideation and craft to its use, reuse, circulation, recycling, and (if not obliterated) its final entry into a museum. It is such an epistemological triptych that guides this investigation.

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À propos de l?auteur

Jean-François Gauvin, Ph.D. (2008) is an associate professor of history and museum studies at Université Laval in Québec city. He has published numerous articles on scientific instruments and two frequently cited edited volumes on globes and abbé Jean-Antoine Nollet.

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Éditeur
Brill
Date d'édition
2023
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
9004504605
ISBN 13 
9789004504608
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
304
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Personne responsable
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