Serres, Michel

Serres, Michel. Conversations on Science, Culture, and Time. The University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor. 1995. 

Serres, Michel (1990) Le contrat naturel, Paris, Francois Bourin. 

Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent. Lavoisier Une Revolution Scientifique. Elements d Histoire des Sciences. Michel Serres, ed. Paris Larousse-Bordas, 1997, pp. 541-573. 

Within the constructivist historiography of localism, Bensaude-Vincent focused on the role of instruments, texts and language in the construction of Lavoisier s chemistry. She denied that experimental physics was the source of Lavoisier s work with the balance, which she linked instead to activities well beyond its use in the laboratory the question of the balance goes beyond the epistemological level to implicate the social dimension as well . Appealing to the constructivist views of Latour, Michel Serres and Norman Wise, Bensaude-Vincent treated the balance as a quasi-object , or force of mediation, which through... 

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