Interactive zones: On the prehistory of the scientific laboratory

Abstract

Today, study of the infrastructure of new knowledge production is of philosophical, theoretical, and world-view, as well as of strictly practical, interest, determined by the necessity to organize large-scale scientific-technological projects and to control their functioning. The difficulty is that managers deal both with complex technical and production facilities and with, perhaps, even more complicated social associations that include not only scientists of different specializations, schools, and scientific traditions but also engineers, technicians, managers, economists, entrepreneurs, politicians, information and PR specialists, and other professionals. The first step toward understanding how such a system lives and develops is to turn to the time when modern science originated, i.e., the scientific revolution of the 17th century. There the author seeks confirmation of his point of view on the nature and organization of the modern scientific community.

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