TY - JOUR
AU1 - Daston, Lorraine
AU2 - Galison, Peter
AB -  LORRAINE DASTON AND PETER GALISON The Talismanic Image oply of visual methodsin the sciences,concluded: "There is no doubt thatgraphical expressionwillsoon replace all otherswheneverone has at hand a movement or change of state-in a word, any phenomenon. Born before science,language is often inappropriate to express exact measures or definiterelations."Others the of the mightcryout to salvage the "insights dialectic," "powerof arguments," of "insinuationsof elegance," or the "flowers language," but theirprotestations were loston Marey,who dreamed of a wordlesssciencethatspoke insteadin highspeed photographs and mechanicallygenerated curves; in images thatwere, as he put it,in the "language of the phenomena themselves."' of "Let nature speak foritself"became the watchword a new brand of scienAt thatemerged in the latterhalfof the nineteenth tific century. issue objectivity as scientists was not onlyaccuracybut morality well: the all-too-human must,as a themselves fromimposingtheirhopes, expectations, restrain matterof duty, generalizations,aesthetics,even ordinarylanguage on the image of nature. Where human self-discipline flagged, the machine would take over. Wary of human between nature and representation, intervention Marey and his contemporaries turned to mechanicallyproduced images to eliminatesuspect mediation. They enlistedpolygraphs,photographs,and a hostof otherdevicesin a near-fanatical effort create atlases-the bibles of the observationalsciences-documenting to and flowers images thatwere in human bodies, elementary birds,fossils, particles, freeof human interference. certified in 
TI - The Image of Objectivity
JF - Representations
DO - 10.2307/2928741
DA - 1992-10-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/university-of-california-press/the-image-of-objectivity-XuKEa7NhC0
SP - 81
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IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
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