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Professor Lorraine Daston FBA

History of science, 16th-19th centuries.: probability and statistics; scientific observation; objectivity; formal theories of rationality
Fellow type
International Fellow
Year elected
2010
Subjects
History
Sections
Early Modern History to 1850
Website
http://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/en/staff/members/ldaston

Current post

Director, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science; Visiting Professor in the Committee on Social Thought, The University of Chicago

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