Rheinberger, Hans-Jörg (Author)
History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences
Volume: 36, no. 3
Issue: 3
Pages: 321-334
Edition Details: Part of a Series: Crossroads between nature and culture: Papers in honour of Christiane Groeben
Language: English
This paper proposes an outline for a typology of the different forms that scientific objects can take in the life sciences. The first section discusses preparations (or specimens)---a form of scientific object that accompanied the development of modern biology in different guises from the seventeenth century to the present: as anatomical--morphological specimens, as microscopic cuts, and as biochemical preparations. In the second section, the characteristics of models in biology are discussed. They became prominent from the end of the nineteenth century onwards. Some remarks on the role of simulations---characterising the life sciences of the turn from the twentieth to the twenty-first century---conclude the paper.
...MoreArticle Bernardi, Giorgio; Fantini, Bernardino; Dröscher, Ariane (2015) Crossroads between Nature and Culture: An Introduction. History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences (pp. 301-304).
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