Lorraine Daston

Lorraine Daston, a director at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, has written on the history of probability, wonders and scientific objectivity.

In the LRB Archive:

• Lumpers v. Splitters: The Weather Watchers · 3 November 2005

  • Predicting the Weather: Victorians and the Science of Meteorology by Katharine Anderson

• All Curls and Pearls: why are we so curious? · 23 June 2005

  • The Uses of Curiosity in Early Modern France and Germany by Neil Kenny

• Are you having fun today?: serendipidity · 23 September 2004

  • The Travels and Adventures of Serendipity: A Study in Sociological Semantics and the Sociology of Science by Robert Merton and Elinor Barber

• Visitors! Danger!: Charles Darwin · 8 May 2003

  • Charles Darwin: Vol. II: The Power of Place by Janet Browne

• Saintly Resonances: Obliterate the self! · 31 October 2002

  • Dying to Know: Scientific Epistemology and Narrative in Victorian England by George Levine

• Language of Power on cartography · 1 November 2001

  • The New Nature of Maps: Essays in the History of Cartography by J.B. Harley, edited by Paul Laxton
  • Apollo’s Eye: A Cartographic Genealogy of the Earth in the Western Imagination by Denis Cosgrove

• Why statistics tend not only to describe the world but to change it · 13 April 2000

  • The Politics of Large Numbers: A History of Statistical Reasoning by Alain Desrosières, translated by Camille Naish

• How to make a Greek god smile · 10 June 1999

  • Wonder, the Rainbow and the Aesthetics of Rare Experiences by Philip Fisher

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