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Histories of scientific observation

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English
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480

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Cover of: Histories of Scientific Observation
Histories of Scientific Observation
2011, University of Chicago Press
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Histories of scientific observation
2011, The University of Chicago Press, University of Chicago Press
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Table of Contents

Observation 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.

Edition Notes

Includes index.

Published in
Chicago, London

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
507.2/3
Library of Congress
Q174.8 .H57 2011, Q174.8.H57 2011

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
480

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24453062M
Internet Archive
historiesscienti00dast
ISBN 10
0226136779, 0226136787
ISBN 13
9780226136776, 9780226136783
LCCN
2010023093
OCLC/WorldCat
587209620

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