timelets

The first structure provided by classificatory medicine is the flat surface of perpetual simultaneity. Table and picture.
2. It is a space in which analogies define essences. The pictures resemble things, but they also resemble one another. The distance that separates one disease from another can be measured only by the degree of their resemblance, without reference to the logicotemporal divergence of genealogy.

--- Michel Foucault, The Birth of the Clinic.

“One could see with his own eyes that this beautiful site was the origin of the cultivated apple.”

Vavilov based these words on his idea that the ‘centres of origin’ of a species lie in the places where you find its highest genetic diversity. His observations that all domestic apples may originate from Almaty has since been confirmed by modern genetics.

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20181120-the-birthplace-of-the-modern-apple

It is important to recognize that, in the view of the actors of those days, these variants were at the same time quite different from each other and equally were serious rivals. It is only by retrospective distortion that a quasi-linear development emerges, as depicted in figure 4.
Bijker, Wiebe E., et al. The Social Construction of Technological Systems : New Directions in the Sociology and History of Technology, MIT Press, 2012.

In deciding which problems are relevant, the social groups concerned with the artifact and the meanings that those groups give to the artifact play a crucial role: A problem is defined as such only when there is a social group for which it constitutes a “problem.”

Thus technology literally means “an ordered account of art, craft, or trade”—in other words, broadly speaking, a recipe.

-- The Code Economy, by Philip Auerswald.