Nature Engaged: Science in Practice from the Renaissance to the Present

Book Overview

Introduction: Nature Engaged; M.Biagioli & J.Riskin PART I: CONVENTIONS Scientific Meetings and Technical Standards; K.Alder Practicing Eighteenth-Century Science Today; H.Chang The Textbook Case of a Priority Dispute; M.D.Gordin Complex Systems and Total War; D.Pestre PART II: LAWS Witnessing Astronomy: Kepler on the Uses and Misuses of Testimony; M.Biagioli Improvement for Profit: Calculating Machines and the Prehistory of Intellectual Property; M.L.Jones Genes, Railroads and Regulations; D.J.Kevles Epidemiology in Court; T.Golan PART III: NARRATIVES Mercator Maps Time; A.Grafton Rethinking 1633: Writing about Galileo After the Trial; P.Findlen PART IV: THINGS Machines in the Garden; J.Riskin Cosmography and the Meaning of Sundials; J.Bennett The Web of Knowing and Doing: William Thomson's Apparatus Room and the History of Electricity; G.Pancaldi

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349287172
• ISBN13: 9781349287178
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 301 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"