Reworking the bench : research notebooks in the history of science / edited by Frederic L. Holmes, Jürgen Renn, and Hans-Jörg Rheinberger.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Holmes, Frederic Lawrence.

Renn, Jürgen, 1956-

Rheinberger, Hans-Jörg.

Series:

Archimedes (Dordrecht, Netherlands) ; v. 7.

Archimedes ; v. 7

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Scientific literature--History.

Scientific literature.

Technical writing--History.

Technical writing.

Research--History.

Research.

History.

Physical Description:

xv, 325 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, [2003]

Contents:

The Hanging Chain: A Forgotten "Discovery" Buried in Galileo's Notes on Motion / Jurgen Renn, Peter Damerow 1

The Chymical Laboratory Notebooks of George Starkey / William R. Newman, Lawrence M. Principe 25

Newton's Optical Notebooks: Public Versus Private Data / Alan E. Shapiro 43

At Play with Nature: Luigi Galvani's Experimental Approach to Muscular Physiology / Marco Bresadola 67

The Practice of Studying Practice: Analyzing Research Records of Ampere and Faraday / Friedrich Steinle 93

From Agents to Cells: Theodor Schwann's Research Notes of the Years 1835-1838 / Ohad Parnes 119

Narrating by Numbers: Keeping an Account of Early 19th Century Laboratory Experiences / H. Otto Sibum 141

Exploring Contents and Boundaries of Experimental Practice in Laboratory Notebooks: Samuel Pierpont Langley and the Mapping of the Infra-red Region of the Solar Spectrum / Andrea Loettgers 159

The Pocket Schedule. Note-taking as a Research Technique: Ernst Mach's Ballistic-Photographic Experiments / Christoph Hoffmann 183

From Lone Investigator to Laboratory Chief: Ivan Pavlov's Research Notebooks as a Reflection of His Managerial and Interpretive Style / Daniel P. Todes 203

Carl Correns' Experiments with Pisum, 1896-1899 / Hans-Jorg Rheinberger 221

Errors and Insights: Reconstructing the Genesis of General Relativity from Einstein's Zurich Notebook / Jurgen Renn, Tilman Sauer 253

Hans Krebs' and Kurt Henseleit's Laboratory Notebooks and Their Discovery of the Urea Cycle

Reconstructed with Computer Models / Gerd Grasshoff, Michael May 269

Laboratory Notebooks and Investigative Pathways / Frederic L. Holmes 295

The Scholar's Seeing Eye / Jed Z. Buchwald 309.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1402010397

OCLC:

51053666