Links and Their Traces: Cultural Strategies, Resources, and Conjunctures of Experimental and Mathematical Practices

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Introduction 7
4. Part I: Before 1900
5. Some Motives and Incentives to the Study of Natural Philosophy 13
6. Scientific Facts and Empirical Concepts: The Case of Electricity 31
7. The Humboldtian Gaze 45
8. What’s in a Line? 61
9. Apollo’s Tragedy: Laboratory Science between Classicism and Industrial Modernism 103
10. Exact sciences and colonialism: southern India in 1900 121
11. Part II: Science in the Age of Extremes
12. The Art of Exploring the Unknown: Views on Contemporary Research in the Life Sciences 141
13. Contenders for Life: Approaches from Physics, Biology, and Engineering 153
14. What about Participation, Governance and Politics? Remarks on Contemporary Techno-science and the Field of STS 163
15. The Politics of Cognition: Genesis and Development of Ludwik Fleck’s ‘Comparative Epistemology’ 183
16. Science and Politics in the Philosophy of Science: Popper, Kuhn, and Polanyi 201
17. Links and Their Traces: Cultural Strategies, Resources, and Conjunctures of Experimental and Mathematical Practices 217
18. List of contributors 241
19. Bibliography 243