Instruments of knowledge: finding meaning in objects, habits, and museums Instruments of knowledge: finding meaning in objects, habits, and museums, by Jean-François Gauvin. Nuncius series 12, Brill, Leiden, 2023, x + 292 pp., €129.00(hb), ISBN 9789004504608 [Book Review]

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In a brief section at the centre of this book, Jean-François Gauvin troubles the oppositions that so often structure histories of science: “episteme/techne, art/science, matter/ether, body/mind, or...

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