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22 of 36 people found the following review helpful:
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a new way to see objectivity,
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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,
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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. |
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Objectivity by Peter Galison (Hardcover - September 28, 2007)
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