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Scientific practice : theories and stories of doing physics / edited by Jed Z. Buchwald.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Physics--Experiments--Methodology.
- Physics.
- Physics--Experiments--History.
- Physics--Philosophy.
- Science--Philosophy.
- Science.
- Physics--Experiments.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 398 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 1995.
- Summary:
- List of FiguresAnalytical Contents1: IntroductionIan Hacking2: Context and ConstraintsPeter L. Galison3: Beyond Constraint: The Temporality of Practice and the Historicity of KnowledgeAndrew Pickering4: Experimenting in the Natural Sciences: A Philosophical ApproachHans Radder5: Scientific Practice: The View from the TabletopBrian S. Baigrie6: Following Scientists through Society? Yes, but at Arm's Length!Yves Gingras7: Why Hertz Was Right about Cathode RaysJed Z. Buchwald8: Is the Identification of Experimental Error Contextually Dependent? The Case of Kaufmann's Experiment and Its Varied ReceptionGiora Hon9: Scientific Conclusions and Philosophical Arguments: An Inessential TensionMargaret Morrison10: Where Experiments End: Tabletop Trials in Victorian AstronomySimon Schaffer11: The Sturdy Protestants of Science: Larmor, Trouton, and the Earth's Motion through the EtherAndrew WarwickConclusionJed Z. Buchwald, Sylvan S. Schweber.ReferencesContributorsIndex
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-383) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0226078892
- 0226078906
- OCLC:
- 31901198
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