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The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making

The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making COMPARATIVE LITERATURE /88 selves will demonstrate the extent to which inscription devices actually constitute the signifying scene in technoscience” (p. 12). The first essays in Inscribing Science treat significant material elements of scientific communication, the artifactual bases of our thought technologies. Lorraine Daston’s “The Language of Strange Facts in Early Modern Science” presents a short history of fact-making that details the residual impress of the premodern phenomenology of aberrant—nonstatistical, nonreplicable—obser vations on the emergence of modern scientific methodology: “strange facts were the first scientific facts . . . they distilled certain features of factuality in purest form, namely, opacity in meaning and fragmentation in form” (p. 21). Daston’s manifesto for a pragmatic methodology of historical constructivism is followed by a cluster of essays treating the cultural weave of mathematical and discursive devices. In “Shaping Information: Mathematics, Computing, and Typography,” Robin Rider reviews the mathematical philosophies informing postmedieval typefaces, and the “several stages whereby craftsmen and scholars tried to link the thinking and techniques of science to the processes of reproducing the written word” (p. 50). In “The Technology of Mathematical Persuasion,” Brian Rotman reprises his groundbreaking work in Signifying Nothing (Macmillan, 1987) and Ad Infinitum (Stanford University Press, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Comparative Literature Duke University Press

The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making

Comparative Literature , Volume 52 (1) – Jan 1, 2000

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Duke University Press
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Copyright 2000 by University of Oregon
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0010-4124
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1945-8517
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10.1215/-52-1-90
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COMPARATIVE LITERATURE /88 selves will demonstrate the extent to which inscription devices actually constitute the signifying scene in technoscience” (p. 12). The first essays in Inscribing Science treat significant material elements of scientific communication, the artifactual bases of our thought technologies. Lorraine Daston’s “The Language of Strange Facts in Early Modern Science” presents a short history of fact-making that details the residual impress of the premodern phenomenology of aberrant—nonstatistical, nonreplicable—obser vations on the emergence of modern scientific methodology: “strange facts were the first scientific facts . . . they distilled certain features of factuality in purest form, namely, opacity in meaning and fragmentation in form” (p. 21). Daston’s manifesto for a pragmatic methodology of historical constructivism is followed by a cluster of essays treating the cultural weave of mathematical and discursive devices. In “Shaping Information: Mathematics, Computing, and Typography,” Robin Rider reviews the mathematical philosophies informing postmedieval typefaces, and the “several stages whereby craftsmen and scholars tried to link the thinking and techniques of science to the processes of reproducing the written word” (p. 50). In “The Technology of Mathematical Persuasion,” Brian Rotman reprises his groundbreaking work in Signifying Nothing (Macmillan, 1987) and Ad Infinitum (Stanford University Press,

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Published: Jan 1, 2000

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