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050 00 $aQ174.8$b.H57 2011
082 00 $a507.2/3$222
245 00 $aHistories of scientific observation /$cedited by Lorraine Daston and Elizabeth Lunbeck.
260 $aChicago ;$aLondon :$bThe University of Chicago Press,$c2011.
300 $a460 p., [1] p. of plates :$bill. (some col.) ;$c24 cm.
500 $aIncludes bibliographical referrences and index.
505 0 $aObservation in the margins, 500-1500 / Katharine Park -- Observation rising : birth of an epistemic genre, ca. 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.
650 0 $aObservation (Scientific method)$xHistory.
650 0 $aScience$xMethodology$xHistory.
700 1 $aDaston, Lorraine,$d1951-
700 1 $aLunbeck, Elizabeth.