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Rivals: How Scientists Learned to Cooperate

Lorraine Daston

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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, whose new models of intergovernmental collaboration and global observation networks would later make the mounting evidence of planetary climate change, for example, possible.

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Rivals: How Scientists Learned to Cooperate

Lorraine Daston

3.67/5 (18 ratings)

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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, whose new models of intergovernmental collaboration and global observation networks would later make the mounting evidence of planetary climate change, for example, possible.

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ISBN13:: 9798987053577

kindle Asin:: B0BW62SD85

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