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Observations on observations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 January 2013

John V. Pickstone
John V. Pickstone*
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University of Manchester
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The British Journal for the History of Science , Volume 45 , Issue 4: Special Issue: British Nuclear Culture , December 2012 , pp. 671 - 675
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Copyright © British Society for the History of Science 2013

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References

1 For discussion of similar issues, see the essays in Pickstone, John V. (ed.), Natural Histories, Analyses and Experimentation: Dissecting the Working Knowledges of Chemistry, Medicine and Biology since 1750, a special issue of History of Science (2011) 49, part 3(164), pp. 235–376Google Scholar. Note especially the article by Bruno J. Strasser and Sorya de Chadarevian, ‘The comparative and the exemplary: revisiting the early history of molecular biology’, pp. 317–337.

2 See, for example, Collingwood, R.G., The Idea of History, London and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1961, pp. 282–302Google Scholar.

3 Foucault, Michel, The Order of Things: An Archaeology of Knowledge, London: Tavistock Publications, 1970Google Scholar.

4 John V. Pickstone, ‘The disunities of representation’, an essay review of Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison, Objectivity, New York: Zone Books, 2007, in BJHS, (2009) 40, pp. 595–600.