{"product_id":"instruments-of-knowledge-jean-franzois-gauvin-9789004504608","title":"Instruments of Knowledge: Finding Meaning in Objects, Habits, and Museums","description":"In a bid to claim 'scientific objects' as requiring a significant amount of conceptual labor, this book looks sequentially at instruments, habits, and museums. The goal is to uncover how, together, these material and immaterial activities, rules, and commitments form one meaningful and credible blueprint revealing the building blocks of knowledge production. They serve to conceptualize and examine the entire life of an instrument: from its ideation and craft to its use, reuse, circulation, recycling, and (if not obliterated) its final entry into a museum. It is such an epistemological triptych that guides this investigation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jean-François Gauvin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 9004504605\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9789004504608\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Brill\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/26\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 294\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.31lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.10w x 0.69d","brand":"Jean-François Gauvin","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48446522327295,"sku":"9789004504608","price":171.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_56cca82f-fa47-4043-b3d2-ee2d4122eef4.jpg?v=1777225199","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/instruments-of-knowledge-jean-franzois-gauvin-9789004504608","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}