Picture Control by Nicolas Rasmussen
This first detailed historical treatment of the electron microscope in biology advances an original philosophical argument on the relation of experimental technology to scientific change.-
Social Systems
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Ethical Know-How
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Gramophone, Film, Typewriter
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Observations on Modernity
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Bootstrapping
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Mapping Benjamin
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From Energy to Information
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Irresistible Dictation
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The Technical Imagination
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Problems of Form
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Experimenting in Tongues
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The Disunity of Science
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Experiments, Models, Paper Tools
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On Beyond Living
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Empire and the Sun
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Mathematics As Sign
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The Protoliterary
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Solomon's Child
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Naturalizing Phenomenology
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Geometrical Landscapes
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Sciences of the Flesh
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Six Stories from the End of Representation
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Who Wrote the Book of Life?
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Cinematograph of Words
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Dance Pathologies
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Studying Those Who Study Us
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Models
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Relays
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The Einstein Tower
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Inscribing Science
"All too often the history of sciences takes for granted the role of instruments in scientific progressPicture Control is a welcome and notable exception. . . . The book is rich in historic anecdotes. . . . Rasmussen provides a cogent discussion of introducing a revolutionary instrument into science."—American Zoologist
Rasmussen, Nicolas: - Nicolas Rasmussen is Associate Professor in History and Philosophy of Science at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. He is the author of Picture Control: The Electron Microscope and the Transformation of Biology in America, 1940-1960.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780804738507 |
| ISBN 10 | 0804738505 |
| Title | Picture Control |
| Author | Nicolas Rasmussen |
| Series | Writing Science |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Stanford University Press |
| Year published | 1999-08-01 |
| Number of pages | 436 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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