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The Place of Knowledge A Methodological Survey

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 September 2008

Adi Ophir  and
Steven Shapin
Adi Ophir
Affiliation:
The Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas Tel Aviv University (A. O.)
Steven Shapin
Affiliation:
Department of Sociology and Science Studies Program University of California, San Diego (S. S.)
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A generation ago scientific ideas floated free in the air, as historians gazed up at them in wonder and admiration. From time to time, historians agreed, the ideas that made up the body of scientific truth became incarnate: they were embedded into the fleshly forms of human culture and attached to particular times and places. How this incarnation occurred was a great mystery. How could spirit be made flesh? How did the transcendent and the timeless enter the forms of the mundane and the contingent? Platonist and providentialist perspectives offered ways of speaking about the mystery, but, in general, it remained unresolved at the core of orthodox idealist historiography.1

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Science in Context , Volume 4 , Issue 1 , Spring 1991 , pp. 3 - 22
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