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RIVALS - LORRAINE DASTON KARTONIERT (TB)

Why is the scientific community so unified? In the last 350-odd years  the international
scientific community” has come to be the bastion of consensus and concerted action  especially
in the face of two global crises: disastrous climate change  and a deadly pandemic. How did the
scientific community” come into existence  and why does it work? Rivals is an attempt to answer
these questions in the form of a brief historical overview  from the late seventeenth to the
early twenty-first centuries  through the creation of two enormous projects—the Carte du Ciel 
or the great star map  and the International Cloud Atlas  pioneered by the World Meteorological
Organization after World War II. These new models of intergovernmental collaboration and global
observation networks would later make the mounting evidence of planetary phenomena like climate
change possible. Drawing upon original documents stored in Paris  Geneva  and Uppsala 
historian of science Lorraine Daston offers a fascinating  lively study of successful and
unsuccessful scientific collaborations. Rivals is indispensable both as history and as
guidance.

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