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Book Instruments of Knowledge

Download or read book Instruments of Knowledge written by Jean-François Gauvin and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-06-19 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a bid to claim ‘scientific objects’ as requiring a significant amount of conceptual labor, this book looks sequentially at instruments, habits, and museums. The goal is to uncover how, together, these material and immaterial activities, rules, and commitments form one meaningful and credible blueprint revealing the building blocks of knowledge production. They serve to conceptualize and examine the entire life of an instrument: from its ideation and craft to its use, reuse, circulation, recycling, and (if not obliterated) its final entry into a museum. It is such an epistemological triptych that guides this investigation.

Book Manufacturiers D instruments Scientifiques Et Professionnels

Download or read book Manufacturiers D instruments Scientifiques Et Professionnels written by Canada. Dominion Bureau of Statistics. Industry Division and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Instruments and Experimentation in the History of Chemistry

Download or read book Instruments and Experimentation in the History of Chemistry written by Frederic Lawrence Holmes and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume moves chemical instruments and experiments into the foreground of historical concern, in line with the emphasis on practice that characterizes current work on other fields of science and engineering.

Book Historical Scientific Instruments in Contemporary Education

Download or read book Historical Scientific Instruments in Contemporary Education written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When science’s “black boxes” are pried open, its workings become accessible. Like time-travellers into history but grounded in today’s cultures, learners interact directly with authentic instruments and replicas. Chapters describe educational experiences sparked through collaborations interrelating museum, school and university.

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    Book Details:
  • Author :
  • Publisher : Odile Jacob
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 2738183298
  • Pages : 315 pages

Download or read book written by and published by Odile Jacob. This book was released on with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Beama

Download or read book Beama written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Space Cooperation

Download or read book Space Cooperation written by European Space Agency and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Treaties and Other International Acts Series

Download or read book Treaties and Other International Acts Series written by and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The First Computers

    Book Details:
  • Author : Raul Rojas
  • Publisher : MIT Press
  • Release : 2002-07-26
  • ISBN : 9780262681377
  • Pages : 476 pages

Download or read book The First Computers written by Raul Rojas and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2002-07-26 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This history of computing focuses not on chronology (what came first and who deserves credit for it) but on the actual architectures of the first machines that made electronic computing a practical reality. The book covers computers built in the United States, Germany, England, and Japan. It makes clear that similar concepts were often pursued simultaneously and that the early researchers explored many architectures beyond the von Neumann architecture that eventually became canonical. The contributors include not only historians but also engineers and computer pioneers. An introductory chapter describes the elements of computer architecture and explains why "being first" is even less interesting for computers than for other areas of technology. The essays contain a remarkable amount of new material, even on well-known machines, and several describe reconstructions of the historic machines. These investigations are of more than simply historical interest, for architectures designed to solve specific problems in the past may suggest new approaches to similar problems in today's machines. Contributors Titiimaea F. Ala'ilima, Lin Ping Ang, William Aspray, Friedrich L. Bauer, Andreas Brennecke, Chris P. Burton, Martin Campbell-Kelly, Paul Ceruzzi, I. Bernard Cohen, John Gustafson, Wilhelm Hopmann, Harry D. Huskey, Friedrich W. Kistermann, Thomas Lange, Michael S. Mahoney, R. B. E. Napper, Seiichi Okoma, Hartmut Petzold, Raúl Rojas, Anthony E. Sale, Robert W. Seidel, Ambros P. Speiser, Frank H. Sumner, James F. Tau, Jan Van der Spiegel, Eiiti Wada, Michael R. Williams

Book Jesse Ramsden  1735   1800

Download or read book Jesse Ramsden 1735 1800 written by Anita McConnell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jesse Ramsden was one of the most prominent manufacturers of scientific instruments in the latter half of the eighteenth century. To own a Ramsden instrument, be it one of his great theodolites or one of the many sextants and barometers produced at his London workshop, was to own not only an instrument of incredible accuracy and great practical use, but also a thing of beauty. In this, the first biography of Jesse Ramsden, Dr Anita McConnell reconstructs his life and career and presents us with a detailed account of the instrument trade in this period. By studying the life of one prominent instrument maker, the entire practice of the trade is illuminated, from the initial commission, the intricate planning and design, through the practicalities of production, delivery and, crucially, payment for the work. The book will naturally be of immeasurable interest to historians of science and scientific instruments but, as it also sheds light on the increasing commercialisation of the scientific trade on the cusp of the Industrial Revolution, should also interest social and economic historians of the eighteenth century.

Book Clio Medica  Acta Academiae Internationalis Historiae Medicinae  Vol  19

Download or read book Clio Medica Acta Academiae Internationalis Historiae Medicinae Vol 19 written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-01-29 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As periodical of the International Academy of the History of Medicine, this Clio Medica volume contains 19 papers.

Book Luxury Trades and Consumerism in Ancien R  gime Paris

Download or read book Luxury Trades and Consumerism in Ancien R gime Paris written by Robert Fox and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 16th century, Paris has been a leading arbiter of taste and the ultimate source of luxury goods for Europe and the world. However, the origins of the luxury trades of Paris and their role in the wider economic development of France and Europe have been relatively little examined by historians. This volume provides an entry into some of the many questions raised by the growth of the luxury trades, by bringing together eight detailed case studies of specific trades with five more wide-ranging and theoretical contributions. It therefore offers both the results of entirely new research and a range of new perspectives and methodological reflections on the subject as a whole. Essential to economic and social historians of Early Modern France, the book will also be of interest to all students of material culture.

Book Merchants and Marvels

    Book Details:
  • Author : Pamela Smith
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2013-10-18
  • ISBN : 1135300356
  • Pages : 450 pages

Download or read book Merchants and Marvels written by Pamela Smith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The beginning of global commerce in the early modern period had an enormous impact on European culture, changing the very way people perceived the world around them. Merchants and Marvels assembles essays by leading scholars of cultural history, art history, and the history of science and technology to show how ideas about the representation of nature, in both art and science, underwent a profound transformation between the age of the Renaissance and the early 1700s.

Book From Earth Bound to Satellite

Download or read book From Earth Bound to Satellite written by Alison D. Morrison-Low and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-11-11 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marking the anniversary of the telescope’s invention, these collected essays highlight a number of significant historical episodes concerning this well-loved instrument, which has played a crucial role in Man’s thinking about his position – literally and philosophically – in the universe.

Book A Companion to the History of American Science

Download or read book A Companion to the History of American Science written by Georgina M. Montgomery and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-09-23 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to the History of American Science offers a collection of essays that give an authoritative overview of the most recent scholarship on the history of American science. Covers topics including astronomy, agriculture, chemistry, eugenics, Big Science, military technology, and more Features contributions by the most accomplished scholars in the field of science history Covers pivotal events in U.S. history that shaped the development of science and science policy such as WWII, the Cold War, and the Women’s Rights movement