Collecting Nature
Practices, Styles, and Narratives
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3924508 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bruno J Strasser (0000-0002-2773-6670, University of Geneva, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 303-340 |
| Publication date | 2012-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Osiris (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0369-7827 • E-ISSN: 1933-8287 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/667832 |
| OpenAlex | W1979713350 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 45 |
| References cited | 88 |
The standard narrative in the history of the life sciences focuses on the rise of experimentalism since the late nineteenth century and the concomitant decline of natural history. Here, I propose to reexamine this story by concentrating on a specific set of material and cognitive practices centered on collections. I show that these have been central for the production of knowledge not only in natural history, from the Renaissance to the present, but also in the experimental sciences. Reframing the history of the life sciences in this way makes historical continuities visible and raises new possibilities to contextualize recent developments in science, such as the proliferation of databases and their growing use
Experimentalism · History of Science and Natural History · Philosophy and History of Science · Species Distribution and Climate Change
Biomedical Sciences, History and Sociology of
Science Education and Bureaucratization of Fieldwork
A Naturalist between Two Worlds
Reintroducing “the” Scientific Method to Introduce Scientific Inquiry in Schools
Epistemic Objects and Tools on the School Grounds
The Intertwined Past, Present, and Future of Local Natural History Museum and Amateur Naturalism in Tampere, Finland
Out of Their Shells
Les herbiers dans l’Ouest de la France (1850-1914)
Exhibiting Epistemic Objects
From French Indochina to Paris and back again
Big Data Is the Answer … But What Is the Question
Snails, time, data
Mechanisms and causality in molecular diseases
Animal roles and traces in the history of medicine, c. 1880–1980
The proactive historian
Human genetics after the bomb
A brain worth keeping? Waste, value and time in contemporary brain banking
The global lexicostatistical database
The living record
Taxonomy of fear
The resisted rise of randomisation in experimental design
Collecting human remains in nineteenth-century Paris
New perspectives in the history of twentieth-century life sciences
Die Neuordnung pflanzengeografischen Wissens als „Transitzone“ Wallacea. Ein amerikanisches Expansionsprojekt auf den Philippinen, 1902–1928
Scale in the history of medicine
Learning by the book
Carl Linnaeus's botanical paper slips (1767–1773)
Natural history in the physician's study
Book Forum
"Citizen Science"? Rethinking Science and Public Participation
Worked to the Bone. A Study of Gilded-Age Transatlantic Scientific Networks in Paleontology
Comentário III
From Lexicostatistics to Lexomics
The Field in the Museum
Muséifier le vivant
Mit's Rise to Prominence
An Ecological Experiment on the Grand Scale
The Database before the Computer
Machine Metaphors
Computerizing Diagnosis
Collectionner par-delà nature et culture
Les systématiciens à l'épreuve du barcoding
Una introduccion al renacimiento de la taxonomia
An introduction to the renewal of taxonomy
Une introduction au renouveau de la taxonomie
The Science of Describing
Trading the Genome
Landscapes and Labscapes
Principles of Animal Taxonomy
Putting Science in Its Place
Basic local alignment search tool
The Spatial Turn
Ensuring the Data-Rich Future of the Social Sciences
Cause and Effect in Biology
Collecting Across Cultures
The Intelligibility of Nature
Matters of Exchange
Natural history and information overload
Institutionalizing molecular biology in post-war Europe
Data-driven sciences
Institutional Ecology, `Translations' and Boundary Objects
Pedagogy and the practice of science
Introduction
Desperately seeking status
Gender and the historiography of science
Ideals of Science and Their Discontents in Late Nineteenth-Century American Medicine
An Early Information Society
Laboratories, Museums, and the Comparative Perspective
Placing the View from Nowhere
From Physiology to Classification
Finders, Keepers
The Comparative and the Exemplary
Place and Practice in Field Biology
Museological Science? The Place of the Analytical/Comparative in Nineteenth-Century Science, Technology and Medicine
Working Knowledges Before and After circa 1800
Hyperprofessionalism and the Crisis of Readership in the History of Science
A Generalist's Vision
Lab History
Wonders and the order of nature
Teddy Bear Patriarchy
Type Specimens and Scientific Memory
| Unique citing works | 45 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,8 |
| Citation span | 1970 - 2026 (57) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 45 |