Book ID: CBB001022558

Histories of Scientific Observation (2010)

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Daston, Lorraine J. (Editor)
Lunbeck, Elizabeth A. (Editor)


University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 2010
Language: English


Publication Date: 2010
Physical Details: 460 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index

Description Contents:


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Review Hamerla, Richard (2012) Review of "Histories of Scientific Observation". Technology and Culture (p. 206). unapi

Review Gingras, Yves (2012) Review of "Histories of Scientific Observation". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 157). unapi

Review Zimmerman, Katie (2011) Review of "Histories of Scientific Observation". Endeavour: Review of the Progress of Science (p. 125). unapi

Review Cook, Harold J. (2012) Review of "Histories of Scientific Observation". Bulletin of the History of Medicine (pp. 468-470). unapi

Review Nappi, Carla (2012) Review of "Histories of Scientific Observation". Science. unapi

Review Hoffmann, Christoph (2012) Review of "Histories of Scientific Observation". NTM: Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Technik und Medizin (pp. 107-110). unapi

Essay Review Kusukawa, Sachiko (2014) Observation Observed. Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (pp. 347-352). unapi

Essay Review Golec, Michael J. (2013) In the Way of Technical Images. Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences (pp. 539-549). unapi

Essay Review Pickstone, John V. (2012) Observations on Observations. British Journal for the History of Science (pp. 671-675). unapi

Includes Chapters

Chapter Park, Katharine (2010) Observation in the Margins, 500--1500. In: Histories of Scientific Observation (p. 15). unapi

Chapter Pomata, Gianna (2010) Observation Rising: Birth of an Epistemic Genre, 1500--1650. In: Histories of Scientific Observation (p. 45). unapi

Chapter Daston, Lorraine (2010) The Empire of Observation, 1600--1800. In: Histories of Scientific Observation (p. 81). unapi

Chapter Meli, Domenico Bertoloni (2010) The Color of Blood: Between Sensory Experience and Epistemic Significance. In: Histories of Scientific Observation (p. 117). unapi

Chapter Gordin, Michael D. (2010) Seeing Is Believing: Professor Vagner's Wonderful World. In: Histories of Scientific Observation (p. 135). unapi

Chapter Bigg, Charlotte (2010) A Visual History of Jean Perrin's Brownian Motion Curves. In: Histories of Scientific Observation (p. 156). unapi

Chapter Terrall, Mary (2010) Frogs on the Mantelpiece: The Practice of Observation in Daily Life. In: Histories of Scientific Observation (p. 185). unapi

Chapter Maas, Harro (2010) Sorting Things Out: The Economist as an Armchair Observer. In: Histories of Scientific Observation (p. 206). unapi

Chapter Canales, Jimena (2010) “A Number of Scenes in a Badly Cut Film”: Observation in the Age of Strobe. In: Histories of Scientific Observation (p. 230). unapi

Chapter Lunbeck, Elizabeth (2010) Empathy as a Psychoanalytic Mode of Observation: Between Sentiment and Science. In: Histories of Scientific Observation (p. 255). unapi

Chapter Porter, Theodore M. (2010) Reforming Vision: The Engineer Le Play Learns to Observe Society Sagely. In: Histories of Scientific Observation (p. 281). unapi

Chapter Morgan, Mary S. (2010) Seeking Parts, Looking for Wholes. In: Histories of Scientific Observation (p. 303). unapi

Chapter Dror, Otniel E. (2010) Seeing the Blush: Feeling Emotions. In: Histories of Scientific Observation (p. 326). unapi

Chapter Wilder, Kelley (2010) Visualizing Radiation: The Photographs of Henri Becquerel. In: Histories of Scientific Observation (p. 349). unapi

Chapter Bleichmar, Daniela (2010) The Geography of Observation: Distance and Visibility in Eighteenth-Century Botanical Travel. In: Histories of Scientific Observation (p. 373). unapi

Chapter Mendelsohn, J. Andrew (2010) The World on a Page: Making a General Observation in the Eighteenth Century. In: Histories of Scientific Observation (p. 396). unapi

Chapter Secord, Anne (2010) Coming to Attention: A Commonwealth of Observers during the Napoleonic Wars. In: Histories of Scientific Observation (p. 421). unapi

Chapter Daston, Lorraine; Lunbeck, Elizabeth (2010) Introduction: Observation Observed. In: Histories of Scientific Observation (p. 1). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Alexandrescu, Vlad
Coppola, Al
Daston, Lorraine J.
Guicciardini, Niccolò
Harper, William L.
Hitchcock, Christopher
Journals
Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation
Perspectives on Science
Apeiron: Journal for Ancient Philosophy and Science
British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
Galilæana: Journal of Galilean Studies
Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences
Publishers
Harrassowitz
Oxford University Press
SISMEL edizioni del Galluzzo
Zeta Books
Concepts
Epistemology
Observation
Methodology of science; scientific method
Natural philosophy
Philosophy of science
Empiricism
People
Newton, Isaac
Aristotle
Descartes, René
Fraassen, Bas C. van
Galilei, Galileo
Grew, Nehemiah
Time Periods
17th century
18th century
19th century
Early modern
16th century
20th century, late
Places
Great Britain
France
Greece
Institutions
Accademia delle Arti del Disegno
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