Instruments of Knowledge

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Instruments of Knowledge is written by Jean-François Gauvin and published by BRILL. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9004504613 (ISBN 10) and 9789004504615 (ISBN 13).

In a bid to claim ‘scientific objects’ as requiring a significant amount of conceptual labor, this book looks sequentially at instruments, habits, and museums. The goal is to uncover how, together, these material and immaterial activities, rules, and commitments form one meaningful and credible blueprint revealing the building blocks of knowledge production. They serve to conceptualize and examine the entire life of an instrument: from its ideation and craft to its use, reuse, circulation, recycling, and (if not obliterated) its final entry into a museum. It is such an epistemological triptych that guides this investigation.