Overview :The emergence of objectivity in the mid-nineteenth-century sciences, as revealed through images in scientific atlases--a story of how lofty ... Read More
Overview :A pithy work of philosophical anthropology that explores why humans find moral orders in natural orders.Why have human beings, in many diffe... Read More
Overview :What did it mean to be reasonable in the Age of Reason? Classical probabilists from Jakob Bernouli through Pierre Simon Laplace intended the... Read More
Overview :Observation is the most pervasive and fundamental practice of all the modern sciences, both natural and human. Its instruments include not o... Read More
Overview :Why does an object or phenomenon become the subject of scientific inquiry? Why do some of these objects remain provocative, while others fad... Read More
Overview :For thousands of years, people have used nature to justify their political, moral, and social judgments. Such appeals to the moral authority... Read More
Overview :An award-winning history of the Enlightenment quest to devise a mathematical model of rationality What did it mean to be reasonable in the A... Read More
Overview :A rich exploration of how European naturalists used wonder and wonders (oddities and marvels) to envision and explain the natural world.Winn... Read More
Overview :A panoramic history of rules in the Western world Rules order almost every aspect of our lives. They set our work hours, dictate how we driv... Read More
Overview :Archives bring to mind rooms filled with old papers and dusty artifacts. But for scientists, the detritus of the past can be a treasure trov... Read More
Overview :Is anthropomorphism a scientific sin? Scientists and animal researchers routinely warn against "animal stories," and contrast rigorous expla... Read More
Overview :Essays examine nine intriguing objects made eloquent when matter and meaning converge.Imagine a world without things. There would be nothing... Read More