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Histories of scientific observation / edited by Lorraine Daston and Elizabeth Lunbeck.
LIBRA Q174.8 .H57 2011
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Observation (Scientific method)--History.
- Observation (Scientific method).
- Science--Methodology--History.
- Science.
- Science--Methodology.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 460 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2011.
- Contents:
- Observation in the margins, 500-1500 / Katharine Park
- Observation rising : birth of an epistemic genre, 1500-1650 / Gianna Pomata
- The empire of observation, 1600-1800 / Lorraine Daston
- The color of blood : between sensory experience and epistemic significance / Domenico Bertoloni Meli
- Seeing is believing : Professor Vagner's wonderful world / Michael D. Gordin
- A visual history of Jean Perrin's Brownian motion curves / Charlotte Bigg
- Frogs on the mantelpiece : the practice of observation in daily life / Mary Terrall
- Sorting things out : The economist as an armchair observer / Harro Maas
- "A number of scenes in a badly cut film" : observation in the age of strobe / Jimena Canales
- Empathy as a psychoanalytic mode of observation : between sentiment and science / Elizabeth Lunbeck
- Reforming vision : the engineer Le Play learns to observe society sagely / Theodore M. Porter
- Seeking parts, looking for wholes / Mary S. Morgan
- Seeing the blush : feeling emotions / Otniel E. Dror
- Visualizing radiation : the photographs of Henri Becquerel / Kelley Wilder
- The geography of observation : distance and visibility in eighteenth-century botanical travel / Daniela Bleichmar
- The world on a page : making a general observation in the eighteenth century / J. Andrew Mendelsohn
- Coming to attention : a commonwealth of observers during the Napoleonic Wars / Anne Secord.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780226136776
- 9780226136783
- 0226136779
- 0226136787
- OCLC:
- 587209620
- Publisher Number:
- 99941673730
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