From keeping ‘nature’s secrets’ to the institutionalization of ‘open science’
This essay examines the economics of patronage and the roles of asymmetric information and reputation in the early modern reorganization of scientific activities, specifically their influence upon the historical formation of key elements in the ethos and organizational structure of publicly funded o...
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University of Oxford
2001
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