The media perspective in the study of scientific abstraction

Abstract

What I have chosen to refer to as the "media perspective" is a way of looking at science, its history and its philosophy which has been successfully employed in a number of recent studies. In these works, the term “medium” rarely occurs, but I believe that the experiences of media studies can be very helpful for historians and philosophers of science in looking at things from this perspective. This approach deserves to be explicitly put into focus, and I will try to do so with a number of examples.