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mechanical objectivity: a standalone construct

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History of science

the nineteenth-century scientific ideal of letting nature record itself through machines and procedures that restrain the observer's will.

In history of science, mechanical objectivity refers to the nineteenth-century scientific ideal of letting nature record itself through machines and procedures that restrain the observer's will. This meaning comes from Daston (1992) in Representations.[1]

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References

Daston, L., & Galison, P. (1992). The Image of Objectivity. Representations, 40, 81-128. https://doi.org/10.2307/2928741

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