| [do objects have history? a meeting between pasteur and whitehead in a lactic-acid bath]. | did pasteur discover, construct, invent lactic acid? this gordian knot in social studies of the sciences is happily cut when the scene played out at lille in 1857 is peopled with whiteheadean conceptual characters. the nature addressed by pasteur does not speak the language of scientific utterances but neither is it mute; it is imbued with propositions. insofar as pasteur plays the character of a scientist, he is 'acted on' by a singular proposition -- "a tale that perhaps might be told," as whi ... | 1995 | 11625243 |