Histories of scientific observation
By: edited by Lorraine Daston and Elizabeth Lunbeck
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press; University of Chicago Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 480
ISBN-13: 9780226136776; 9780226136783
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Observation in the margins, 500-1500 / Katharine Park; title: Observation rising : birth of an epistemic genre, ca. 1500-1650 / Gianna Pomata; title: The empire of observation, 1600-1800 / Lorraine Daston; title: The color of blood : between sensory experience and epistemic significance / Domenico Bertoloni Meli; title: Seeing is believing : Professor Vagner's wonderful world / Michael D. Gordin; title: A visual history of Jean Perrin's Brownian motion curves / Charlotte Bigg; title: Frogs on the mantelpiece : the practice of observation in daily life / Mary Terrall; title: Sorting things out : the economist as an armchair observer / Harro Maas; title: "A number of scenes in a badly cut film" : observation in the age of strobe / Jimena Canales; title: Empathy as a psychoanalytic mode of observation : between sentiment and science / Elizabeth Lunbeck; title: Reforming vision : the engineer Le Play learns to observe society sagely / Theodore M. Porter; title: Seeking parts, looking for wholes / Mary S. Morgan; title: Seeing the blush : feeling emotions / Otniel E. Dror; title: Visualizing radiation : the photographs of Henri Becquerel / Kelley Wilder; title: The geography of observation : distance and visibility in eighteenth-century botanical travel / Daniela Bleichmar; title: The world on a page : making a general observation in the eighteenth century / J. Andrew Mendelsohn; title: Coming to attention : a commonwealth of observers during the Napoleonic Wars / Anne Secord.