Inscribing science : scientific texts and the materiality of communication /
Lenoir, Timothy,1948-
Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press,
1998.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [367]-441) and index.
Inscription practices and materialities of communication / Timothy Lenoir -- The language of strange facts in early modern science / Lorraine Daston -- Shaping information: mathematics, computing, and typography / Robin Rider -- The technology of mathematical persuasion / Brian Rotman -- On the take-off of operators / Friedrich Kittler -- Switchboards and sex: the Nut(t) case / Bernhard Siegert -- Politics on the topographer's table: the Helvetic triangulation of cartography, politics, and representation / David Gugerli -- Writing Darwin's islands: England and the insular condition / Gillian Beer -- Illustration as strategy in Charles Darwin's The expression of the emotions in man and animals / Phillip Prodger -- The Leviathan of Parsonstown: literary technology and scientific representation / Simon Schaffer -- Technology, aesthetics, and the development of astrophotography at the Lick Observatory / Alex Pang -- Standards and semiotics / Robert Brain -- Experimental systems, graphematic spaces / Hans-Jörg Rheinberger -- Emergent power: vitality and theology in artificial life / Richard M. Doyle -- Science and writing: two national narratives of failure / Lisa Bloom -- Perception versus experience: moving pictures and their resistance to interpretation / Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht.
Communication in science.
Communication in science