Research report 2003 - Max Planck Institute for the History of Science

Yesterday's newsclippings

Authors
te Heesen, Anke
Departments

Ideale und Praktiken der Rationalität (Prof. Dr. Lorraine Daston)
MPI für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin

Summary
In the context of research on the history of collecting, especially in how knowledge and science are generated from collections and museums, this article focuses on the phenomenon of collections of newspaper clippings by the year 1900 and their effects on science, the arts and commercialization of information.

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