Science, Language, and the Purity of Bottled Water

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1 A term borrowed from Pickstone 2000; see below.

2 Node (entity) and edge (relationship) are the fundamental elements of any basic flowchart. Fields like bioinformatics and systems biology have developed flowcharts into highly sophisticated digitalized process diagrams, which they use to explore and map networks in complex biological systems like gene regulation.

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Francesca Bray

Francesca Bray is a historian and anthropologist of science, technology, and medicine. She has published extensively on ways of knowing in premodern East Asia and its implications for history of science more generally.