The book "Objectivity [0]" has many clues related to this topic. The history of science is closely tied with the history of how our sense of objectivity has been honed and culminated. Today, we take objectivity for granted, and the subject-object distinction is baked into English, also the Lingua franca of science.

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[0] http://www.amazon.com/Objectivity-Lorraine-J-Daston/dp/18909...