Systemes Experimentaux Et Choses Epistemiques - Paperback

by Hans-Jorg Rheinberger (Author), Arthur Lochmann (Translator)

In just a few years, this book has taken its place among the classics of the history of science. The study is based on an account of the material apparatuses that twentieth-century scientists call "experimental systems." Using this concept as its point of departure, this work establishes an epistemology of modern experimentation.

Author Biography

Hans-Jorg Rheinberger est biologiste moleculaire et historien des sciences. De 1996 a 2014, il fut directeur au Max-Planck-Institut d'histoire des sciences. L'experimentation scientifique constitue l'un de ses principaux objets de recherche. Il a notamment publie: Experiment, Differenz, Schrift (Marburg, 1992), An Epistemology of the Concrete (Durham, 2010) et A Cultural History of Heredity (Chicago, 2012).