Louis Pasteur

is nothing more than a network of heterogeneous networks including laboratories, bacteria, notebooks, and statistics, etc.

work by Bruno Latour shows that Pasteur was nothing more than a network of heterogeneous elements (Latour 1988). THis Pateur-network was made of a lot of bits and pieces: laboratories, domesticated strains of bacteria, notebooks, statistics, and even -as Gerald Geison has treacherously suggested -vaccines chemically treated by his colleague Joesph-Henri Toussaint? (Callon and Law 1997:169)

is a network, not a single entity or a singular body interacting with other bodies. Pasteur-the great researcher did not exist but was the combination and collective of a great number of different elements which produced the event we refer.

The argument is that Pasteur was not a single entity, not just a body and a soul. Or rather it is that he was much more than a body who interacted with other bodies. That, instead, he was a combination of a great number of different elements which produced Pasteur-the-great-researcher. So the argument is also that outside this network Pasteur-the-great-researcher did not exist at all. To put it simply, Pasteur was a network? (Callon and Law 1997:169).

Louis Pasteur, n.Definitions

Louis Pasteur