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Science in the field

Title
  1. Science in the field / edited by Henrika Kuklick and Robert E. Kohler.
Published by
  1. Chicago, IL : University of Chicago Press, 1996.

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Additional authors
  1. Kuklick, Henrika.
  2. Kohler, Robert E.
Description
  1. 265 pages : illustrations; 26 cm.
Series statement
  1. Osiris, 0369-7827 ; v. 11
Uniform title
  1. Osiris (Bruges, Belgium) ; 2nd ser., v. 11.
Subject
  1. Science > Fieldwork
  2. Science > Methodology
  3. Science > History
  4. Fieldwork (Educational method)
Contents
  1. Gender, culture, and astrophysical fieldwork: Elizabeth Campbell and the Lick Observatory-Crocker eclipse expeditions / Alex Soojung-Kim Pang -- Wallace in the field / Jane Camerini -- The Heroic science of glacier motion / Bruce Hevly -- Objectivity or heroism? On the invisibility of women in science / Naomi Oreskes -- When nature is the zoo: vision and power in the art and science of natural history / Gregg Mitman -- Voyages of discovery on oceans of air: scientific observation and the image of science in an age of 'ballonacy' / Jennifer Tucker -- 'It may be truth, but it is not evidence': Paul du Chaillu and the legitimation of evidence in the field sciences / Stuart McCook -- Of sangfroid and sphinx moths: cruelty, public relations, and the growth of entomology in England, 1800-1840 / Anne Larsen Hollerbach -- The Ship as a scientific instrument in the eighteenth century / Richard Sorrenson -- A Tent with a view: colonial officers, anthropologists, and the making of the field in Northern Rhodesia, 1937-1960.
Owning institution
  1. Columbia University Libraries
Note
  1. Issued as volume 11, second series of Osiris: A Research Journal