Nature Engaged
Subtitle: science in practice from the Renaissance to the present
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9780230102767
Description: "Gathering essays that focus on the worldliness of science, this volume offers a kaleidoscopic survey of some of the newest and most exciting work in the history of science. The contributions here are situated at the intersection of science studies and cultural history, revealing science's inseparable engagement with the major institutional bases of social life: law, market, church, school, and nation. With a chronological span reaching from the Renaissance to the twentieth century, these pieces explore sundials, genetic sequences, simulations of human behavior, cartography, radioactive fallout, and a host of other historical phenomena that show the sciences in action throughout human society"--
Table of contents: title: Part I : Conventions.; title: Scientific conventions: international assemblies and technical standards from the republic of letters to global science / Ken Alder; title: Practicing eighteenth-century science today / Hasok Chang; title: The textbook case of a priority dispute: D. I. Mendeleev, Lothar Meyer, and the periodic system / Michael D. Gordin; title: Complex systems and Total War: British operational research and the PM Statistical Branch at the beginning of World War II / Dominique Pestre; title: Part II : Laws.; title: Witnessing astronomy: Kepler on the uses and misuses of testimony / Mario Biagioli; title: Improvement for profit: calculating machines and the prehistory of intellectual property / Matthew L. Jones; title: Genes, railroads, and regulations: intellectual property and the public interest / Daniel J. Kevles; title: Epidemiology, tort, and the relations between science and law in the twentieth-century American courtroom / Tal Golan; title: Part III : Histories.; title: Mercator maps time / Anthony Grafton; title: Rethinking 1633: writing about Galileo after the trial / Paula Findlen; title: Part IV. Things.; title: Machines in the garden / Jessica Riskin; title: Cosmography and the meaning of sundials / Jim Bennett; title: The web of knowing, doing, and patenting: William Thomson's apparatus room and the history of electricity / Giuliano Pancaldi