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Otto Sibum,Hans Rausing Professor of History of Science, Uppsala University: Knowledge in Action: Historical Studies on the Material Culture of Scientific Rationality  Historians acknowledge
that past scientific knowledge is embodied in the material
objects and the related performance of past actors’ work.
Hence experiment is not any longer to be understood as a
set of practices but is better described as human
performance of specialised work involved in generating
knowledge; through this approach, called Experimental
History of Science, and the conceptualisation of practices
as “knowledge in action”, non-literary knowledge
traditions and their role in the local production and
global distribution of scientific knowledge can be
retrieved. In this talk I will show that and how we have
to rethink central historical moments in the development
of the formative period of science in late 18th and 19th
centuries.tirsdag den 9. december, kl. 17 |
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