Regimes of description : in the archive of the eighteenth century /

Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-283) and index. Contents: Lorraine Daston: Description by omission: nature enlightened and obscured. 11-24. - Londa Schiebinger: The limits of scientific description. 25-43. - Jürgen Trabant: Mithridates in paradise: describing languages in a universalis...

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Main Author: edited by John Bender and Michael Marrinan.
Institution:Open Society Archives at Central European University
Language:English
Published: Stanford University Press, c2005.
Stanford, Calif. :
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10891/osa:709c883f-4bdd-47d9-8616-665863df332f

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