The Uses of experiment : studies in the natural sciences /
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| Other Authors / Creators: | Gooding, David, 1947-2009. Pinch, Trevor, 1952-2021. Schaffer, Simon, 1955- |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [1989] |
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Table of Contents:
- Contributors
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I. Instruments in Experiments
- 1. Scientific instruments: models of brass and aids to discovery
- 2. Glass works: Newton's prisms and the uses of experiment
- 3. A viol of water or a wedge of glass
- Part II. Experiment and Argument
- 4. Galileo's experimental discourse
- 5. Fresnel, Poisson and the white spot: the role of successful predictions in the acceptance of scientific theories
- 6. The rhetoric of experiment
- Part III. Representing and Realising
- 7. 'Magnetic curves' and the magnetic field: experimentation and representation in the history of a theory
- 8. Artificial clouds, real particles
- 9. Living in the material world
- 10. Justification and experimentation
- Part IV. The Constituency of Experiment
- 11. Extraordinary experiment: electricity and the creation of life in Victorian England
- 12. Why did Britain join CERN?
- Part V. Hallmarks of Experiment
- 13. From Kwajalein to Armageddon? Testing and the social construction of missile accuracy
- 14. The epistemology of experiment
- Select bibliography
- Name index
- Subject index