Split and Splice

This book deals with scientific experimentation which has been playing an increasingly important role in the sciences since the Early Modern Age. It is all the more surprising, therefore, that scientific philosophy and history have hardly investigated the incredible diversity of experimentation.

Hans-Jörg Rheinberger examines it in all its facets in his new book. He explores the materiality of the experiment, of its objects and its instruments as well as the larger spatial and temporal connections in which scientific experimentation is located and in which it is carried out. This creates a new perspective on science in the making.