Practice, context, and the dialogue between theory and experiment /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1988.
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| Series: | Science in context ;
v.2, no.1 (spring 1988). |
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Table of Contents:
- Practice, reason, context : the dialogue between theory and experiment / Timothy Lenoir
- Robert Boyle and mathematics : reality, representation, and experimental practice / Steven Shapin
- Model builders and instrument makers / Thomas P. Hughes
- Mediating machines / M. Norton Wise
- Astronomers mark time : discipline and the personal equation / Simon Schaffer
- Experimental accuracy, operationalism, and the limits of knowledge - 1925 to 1935 / Mara Beller
- Models of science : fictions or idealizations? / Yemima Ben-Menahem
- Experiment as a second-order concept / Yehuda Elkana
- History, philosophy, and the central metaphor
- Peter Galison.