Buchwald (Jed Z.), ed. - Ian Hacking - Peter L. Garison - Andrew Pickering - Hans Radder - Brian S. Baigrie - Yves Gingras - Giora Hon - Margaret Morrison - Simon Schaffer - Andrew Warwick on Larmor, Trouton - Sylvan S. Schweber
Reference : 100235
(1995)
University of Chicago Press Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1995 Book condition, Etat : Bon paperback, editor's blue wrappers, orange title grand In-8 1 vol. - 411 pages
25 illustrations in black and white 1st Edition paperback, 1995 Contents, Chapitres : Contents, list of figures, Analytical contents, xiii, Text, 398 pages - Ian Hacking : Introduction - 1. Theories : Peter L. Garison : Context and constraints - Andrew Pickering : Beyond constraint : The temporality of practice and the historicity of knowledge - Hans Radder : Experimenting in the natural sciences : A philosophical approach - Brian S. Baigrie : Scientific practice : The view from the tabletop - Yves Gingras : Following scientists through society ? Yes, but at arm's length! - 2. Stories : Jed Z. Buchwald : Why Hertz was right about cathode rays - Giora Hon : Is the identification of experimental error contextually dependent, the case of Kaufmann's experiment and its varied reception - Margaret Morrison : Scientific conclusions and philosophical arguments : An inessential tension - Simon Schaffer : Where experiments end : Tabletop trials in Victorian astronomy - Andrew Warwick : The sturdy protestants of science : Larmor, Trouton, and the Earth's motion through the ether - Jed Z. Buchwald and Sylvan S. Schweber : Conclusion - References, contributors, index - Jed Z. Buchwald est un historien et professeur américain spécialisé en histoire des sciences. Il enseigne au California Institute of Technology (Caltech). Il a également été directeur du Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology (en) du Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Buchwald obtient un Ph.D. de l'université Harvard en 1974. Sa thèse s'intitule : Matter, the Medium, and the Electrical Current: A History of Electricity and Magnetism from 1842-1895. few folding tracks on the front-part of the wrappers, else near fine copy, no markings, inside is clean and unmarked, top right corners of the first pages lightly folded, it's still a rather nice copy