| Description |
xvii, 481 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: 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 |
| Analysis |
Science Methodology |
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Science Methodology - Philosophical perspectives |
| Notes |
Includes indexes |
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Selected papers from a meeting in Bath in 1985 which have been substantially revised |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 461-467 |
| Subject |
Science -- Experiments -- Philosophy.
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Science -- Methodology -- Case studies.
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Science -- methods.
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Science.
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| Author |
Gooding, David, 1947-
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Pinch, Trevor, 1952-
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Schaffer, Simon, 1955-
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| LC no. |
88011630 |
| ISBN |
0521331854 |
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0521337682 (paperback) |
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