Book ID: CBB246123020

Genèse d’une découverte: La division des infusoires (2018)

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Ratcliff, Marc James (Author)


French National Museum Natural History


Publication Date: 2018
Physical Details: 700 pages
Language: English

What kind of tools might a researcher create to identify a new scientific fact? What is there in common between the construction of the fact and its reception? How do the contents of a laboratory notebook interact with scientific correspondence networks and related publications? In this French-language book, Ratcliff explores these questions as he reconstructs both the discovery of the division of Infusoria (fresh- and pond-water unicellular organisms) by Geneva scholar Horace-Bénédict de Saussure (1740–99) and its reception by the late eighteenth-century scientific community. Combining micro-historical and epistemological analysis in order to investigate the double path of the researcher and his object, Ratcliff proposes a new understanding of the relationships between construction, discovery, and reception.

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Review Thierry Hoquet (2019) Review of "Genèse d’une découverte: La division des infusoires". Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (pp. 305-307). unapi

Review Sébastien Dutreuil (2018) Review of "Genèse d’une découverte: La division des infusoires". History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences (p. 46). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Carozzi, Albert V.
Newman, John Kevin
Joop van Doorn
Willem Reijnders
Henk Smit
Jantien Backer
Concepts
Microbiology
Discovery in science
Geology
Historical geology; theory of the earth
Earth sciences
Geomorphology; physiography
Time Periods
18th century
19th century
20th century
17th century
20th century, late
Places
Alps (Europe)
Switzerland
France
Geneva (Switzerland)
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