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Title The architecture of science / edited by Peter Galison and Emily Thompson
Published Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1999

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 573 pages : illustrations (some color)
Series ACLS Humanities E-Book (Series)
Contents 1. Buildings and the Subject of Science / Peter Galison -- 2. Masculine Prerogatives: Gender, Space, and Knowledge in the Early Modern Museum / Paula Findlen -- 3. Alchemical Symbolism and Concealment: The Chemical House of Libavius / William R. Newman -- 4. Openness and Empiricism: Values and Meaning in Early Architectural Writings and in Seventeenth-Century Experimental Philosophy / Pamela O. Long -- 5. Architectures for Steam / M. Norton Wise -- 6. Illuminating the Opacity of Achromatic Lens Production: Joseph von Fraunhofer's Use of Monastic Architecture and Space as a Laboratory / Myles W. Jackson -- 7. The Spaces of Cultural Representation, circa 1887 and 1969: Reflections on Museum Arrangement and Anthropological Theory in the Boasian and Evolutionary Traditions / George W. Stocking, Jr. -- 8. Bricks and Bones: Architecture and Science in Victorian Britain / Sophie Forgan -- 9. "Spatial Mechanics": Scientific Metaphors in Architecture / Adrian Forty
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Architecture and science.
Architecture and technology.
Laboratories.
Science.
Architecture
Science
sciences (philosophy)
laboratories (built works)
science (modern discipline)
architecture (discipline)
Science
Architecture and science
Architecture and technology
Laboratories
Architectuurtheorieën.
Bouwkunst.
Technologie.
Wetenschap.
Architecture.
Sciences.
Muséologie.
Art, Architecture & Applied Arts.
Architecture.
Architecture et technologie.
Form Electronic book
Author Galison, Peter, 1955-
Thompson, Emily Ann.
ISBN 0262071908
9780262071901