Histories of scientific observation
- Title
- Histories of scientific observation / edited by Lorraine Daston and Elizabeth Lunbeck.
- Published by
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2011.
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- Description
- 460 p. : ill. (some col.); 23 cm.
- Subject
- 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.
- Call number
- JBD 18-274
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Title
- Histories of scientific observation / edited by Lorraine Daston and Elizabeth Lunbeck.
- Imprint
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2011.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added author
- Daston, Lorraine, 1951-
- Lunbeck, Elizabeth.
- LCCN
- 2010023093
- ISBN
- 9780226136776 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780226136783 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0226136779 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0226136787 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- Research call number
- JBD 18-274