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Osiris, Volume 32 – Data Histories (OSIRIS OSR) - Softcover

Elena, Aronova; Van Oertzen, Christine; Sepkoski, David

 
9780226538778: Osiris, Volume 32 – Data Histories (OSIRIS OSR)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 022653877X ISBN 13: 9780226538778
Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 2018

Synopsis

The history of data brings together topics and themes from a variety of perspectives in history of science: histories of the material culture of information and of computing, the history of politics on individual and global scales, gender and women's history, as well as the histories of many individual disciplines, to name just a few of the areas covered by essays in this volume. But the history of data is more than just the sum of its parts. It provides an emerging new rubric for considering the impact of changes in cultures of information in the sciences in the longue duree, and an opportunity for historians to rethink important questions that cross many of our traditional disciplinary categories.

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About the Author

David Sepkoski is the Thomas M. Siebel Chair in the History of Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of several books, most recently Rereading the Fossil Record: The Growth of Paleobiology as an Evolutionary Discipline, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

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Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Publication date
2018
Language
English
ISBN 10 
022653877X
ISBN 13 
9780226538778
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
304