History of Science, History of Text

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Chemla, Karine (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2005.
• Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science ; 238
• Subjects: History.; Mathematics.; Anthropology.; History, general.; History of Mathematical Sciences.

This book explores the hypothesis that the types of inscription or text used by a given community of practitioners are designed in the very same process as the one producing concepts and results. The book sets out to show how, in exactly the same way as for the other outcomes of scientific activity,...