Instruments and the Imagination
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: February 5, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780691005492
Subjects: History of science; Precision instruments manufacture; Scientific equipment & techniques, laboratory equipment; Scientific Apparatus And Instruments; Science; Science/Mathematics; History; Biological Sciences; History of Science and Medicine, Philosophy of Science; Science / History
First sentence: IN THE second aphorism of the Novum Organum Francis Bacon argued that "neither the naked hand nor the understanding left to itself can effect much.