%0 Journal Article %T Do Scientific Objects Have a History? Pasteur and Whitehead in a Bath of Lactic Acid %+ médialab (Sciences Po) (médialab) %A Latour, Bruno %< sans comité de lecture %Z 2441/5l6uh8ogmqildh09h2th48d83 %@ 0961-754X %J Common Knowledge %V 5 %N 1 %P 76 - 91 %8 1996 %D 1996 %Z Humanities and Social Sciences/SociologyJournal articles %X The philosophical problem of an history of objects, and not only of the history of the « discovery” of an object is tackled in this theoretical article that uses an empirical example -an article by Pasteur- and Whithead’s philosophy. It explores on which conditions, according to Whithead, it would be possible to overcome the limits of « social” explanations of realism without falling back on the realism of the past. %G English %L hal-02057228 %U https://sciencespo.hal.science/hal-02057228 %~ SHS %~ SCIENCESPO %~ AO-SOCIOLOGIE %~ SOCIOLOGIE %~ MEDIALAB