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Introduction: Scienti C Personae and Their Histories Lorraine Daston and H. Otto Sibum by Ada Castillo is a document available to read on EtoBox.
The ten essays in this special issue of Science in Context address the formation of scientific personae from the sixteenth through the twentieth centuries in Europe and North America. The departure point for the collection was a year-long (1998–99) research project (including a final conference) on “The Scientific Persona” organized at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin. This project was in turn inspired by a seminal essay by the French anthropologist Marcel Mauss on the hi
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- Ada Castillo
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- EN