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COMPARATIVE LITERATURE /88 selves will demonstrate the extent to which inscription devices actually constitute the signifying scene in technoscienceâ (p. 12). The first essays in Inscribing Science treat significant material elements of scientific communication, the artifactual bases of our thought technologies. Lorraine Dastonâs âThe Language of Strange Facts in Early Modern Scienceâ presents a short history of fact-making that details the residual impress of the premodern phenomenology of aberrantânonstatistical, nonreplicableâobser vations on the emergence of modern scientific methodology: âstrange facts were the first scientific facts . . . they distilled certain features of factuality in purest form, namely, opacity in meaning and fragmentation in formâ (p. 21). Dastonâs 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 âShaping Information: Mathematics, Computing, and Typography,â Robin Rider reviews the mathematical philosophies informing postmedieval typefaces, and the âseveral stages whereby craftsmen and scholars tried to link the thinking and techniques of science to the processes of reproducing the written wordâ (p. 50). In âThe Technology of Mathematical Persuasion,â Brian Rotman reprises his groundbreaking work in Signifying Nothing (Macmillan, 1987) and Ad Infinitum (Stanford University Press,
Comparative Literature – Duke University Press
Published: Jan 1, 2000
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