Lorraine Daston

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1. Lorraine Daston

   Author of Wonders and the Order of Nature, 1150-1750, Things That Talk: Object Lessons from Art and Science, Biographies of Scientific Objects

2. Ian Hacking

   Author of The Social Construction of What?, Representing and Intervening: Introductory Topics in the Philosophy of Natural Science, Rewriting the Soul

3. Bruno Latour

   Author of We Have Never Been Modern, Science in Action: How to Follow Scientists and Engineers through Society, Laboratory Life

4. Michel Foucault

   Author of Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology: Essential Works of Foucault, 1954-1984, Volume II, Security, Territory, Population, The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the College de France, 1978-1979

5. Pamela H. Smith

   Author of The Body of the Artisan, Merchants and Marvels: Commerce, Science, and Art in Early Modern Europe

6. Steven Shapin

   Author of Leviathan and the Air-Pump, A Social History of Truth : Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century England, The Scientific Life: A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation

7. Michel Feher

   Author of Zone 4: Fragments for a History of the Human Body, Part 2, Zone 5: Fragments for a History of the Human Body, Part 3

8. Barbara Maria Stafford

   Author of Devices of Wonder: From the World in a Box to Images on a Screen, Artful Science: Enlightenment Entertainment and the Eclipse of Visual Education, Body Criticism: Imaging the Unseen in Enlightenment Art and Medicine

9. Anthony Grafton

   Author of New Worlds, Ancient Texts: The Power of Tradition and the Shock of Discovery, Defenders of the Text: The Traditions of Scholarship in an Age of Science, 1450-1800

10. Paula Findlen

    Author of Possessing Nature, Athanasius Kircher; the Last Man Who Knew Everything

11. Stanley Cavell

    Author of The Claim of Reason: Wittgenstein, Skepticism, Morality, and Tragedy, Must We Mean What We Say?: A Book of Essays, The World Viewed: Reflections on the Ontology of Film, Enlarged Edition

12. Jonathan Crary

    Author of Techniques of the Observer, Suspensions of Perception

13. W. J. T. Mitchell

    Author of Iconology: Image, Text, Ideology, Picture Theory: Essays on Verbal and Visual Representation, What Do Pictures Want?: The Lives and Loves of Images

14. Mary Baine Campbell

    Author of Wonder & Science: Imagining Worlds in Early Modern Europe

15. Caroline Walker Bynum

    Author of Fragmentation and Redemption, Christian Materiality: An Essay on Religion in Late Medieval Europe

16. Ambroise Pare

    Author of On Monsters and Marvels

17. Hillel Schwartz

    Author of The Culture of the Copy: Striking Likenesses, Unreasonable Facsimiles

18. Giorgio Agamben

    Author of The Open: Man and Animal, "What Is an Apparatus?" and Other Essays (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)

19. Patrick Mauries

    Author of Cabinets of Curiosities

20. William Eamon

    Author of Science and the Secrets of Nature