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Zusatztext A socio-historiographic approach that occasionally stretches the material, but which nonetheless is a fascinating and insightful review of almost 60 years of holography. Informationen zum Autor Dr Sean F. JohnstonUniversity of GlasgowRutherford-McCowan BuildingCrichton CampusDumfries DG1 4ZLBSc (physics, Simon Fraser University, Canada, 1978)MSc (physics, Simon Fraser University, Canada, 1980)Chartered Physicist (Institute of Physics, 1990)PhD (history and philosophy of Science, University of Leeds, 1995)Chartered Scientist (Science Council, 2004) Klappentext Holography exploded on the scientific world in 1964! but its slow fuse had been burning much longer. Over the next four decades! the echoes of that explosion reached scientists! engineers! artists and popular culture. Emerging from classified military research! holography evolved torepresent the power of post-war physics! an aesthetic union of art and science! the countercultural meanderings of holism! a cottage industry for waves of would-be entrepreneurs and a fertile plot device for science fiction.New working cultures sprang up to mutate holography! redefining its products! reshaping its audiences and reconceiving its applications. The outcomes included ever more sublime holograms and exquisitely sensitive measuring techniques--but also priority disputes! prurience and poisonous businessrivalries. New subjects cross intellectual borders! and so do their explanations. This book draws on the history and philosophy of science and technology! social studies! politics and cultural history to trace the trajectory of holography. The result is an in-depth account of how new science emerges. Basedon unprecedented interviews with pioneer holographers and extensive archival research! it reveals how science! technology! art and wider culture are entwined in the modern world. Zusammenfassung Holography exploded on the scientific world in 1964, but its slow fuse had been burning much longer. Over the next four decades, the echoes of that explosion reached scientists, engineers, artists and popular culture. Emerging from classified military research, holography evolved to represent the power of post-war physics, an aesthetic union of art and science, the countercultural meanderings of holism, a cottage industry for waves of would-be entrepreneurs and a fertile plot device for science fiction.New working cultures sprang up to mutate holography, redefining its products, reshaping its audiences and reconceiving its applications. The outcomes included ever more sublime holograms and exquisitely sensitive measuring techniques - but also priority disputes, prurience and poisonous business rivalries. New subjects cross intellectual borders, and so do their explanations. This book draws on the history and philosophy of science and technology, social studies, politics and cultural history to trace the trajectory of holography. The result is an in-depth account of how new science emerges. Based on unprecedented interviews with pioneer holographers and extensive archival research, it reveals how science, technology, art and wider culture are entwined in the modern world....
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This is a unique history of how the new science of holography developed intellectually, socially and culturally. Based on unprecedented interviews with pioneer holographers and archival research, it shows how this far-reaching subject is a potent example of how science, technology, art and wider culture are entwined in the modern world.
