ISBN:
9798987053560
Language:
English
Pages:
157 Seiten
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Illustrationen, Karten
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Daston, Lorraine Rivals
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Daston, Lorraine, 1951 - Rivals
DDC:
338.9/26
Keywords:
Science International cooperation
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History
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Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften
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HISTORY / Modern / General
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SCIENCE / History
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Social & cultural history
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Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte
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Wissenschaftliche Kooperation
Abstract:
Why is the scientific community so unified? In the last 350-odd years, the international "scientific community" has come to be the bastion of consensus and concerted action, especially in the face of two global crises: disastrous climate change, and a deadly pandemic. How did "the scientific community" come into existence, and why does it work? Rivals is an attempt to answer these questions in the form of a brief historical overview, from the late seventeenth to the early twenty-first centuries, through the creation of two enormous projects-the Carte du Ciel, or the great star map, and the International Cloud Atlas, pioneered by the World Meteorological Organization after World War II. These new models of intergovernmental collaboration and global observation networks would later make the mounting evidence of planetary phenomena like climate change possible. Drawing upon original documents stored in Paris, Geneva, and Uppsala, historian of science Lorraine Daston offers a fascinating, lively study of successful and unsuccessful scientific collaborations. Rivals is indispensable both as history and as guidance
Abstract:
"International scientific co-operations involved the very real sacrifice of individual careers and local research priorities to the interests of an international collective"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references
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