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Zusatztext There are a number of useful tables, including chronologies of key theoretical developments in each case study, and several helpful graphic illustrations of various models drawn from historical sources. Informationen zum Autor Aitor Anduaga is an Ikerbasque research professor at the Basque Museum of History of Medicine and Science, University of the Basque Country, Spain. He holds a Ph.D. in physics and a bachelor in philosophy. He has been a visiting scholar at the Universities of Oxford, Sydney, Montreal and Toronto, the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science of Berlin and the Smithsonian Institution of Washington. He has published extensively on the social history of geophysics, physics and technology. His main work is: 'Wireless and Empire: Geopolitics, Radio Industry and Ionosphere in the British Empire, 1918-1939' (Oxford University Press, 2009). Klappentext Geophysics, Realism, and Industry is the first book to simultaneously study the emergence of realist attitudes towards the entities (layers) of the ionosphere and the earth's crust. It proposes a new kind of realism: a realism of social and cultural origins, an entity realism responding to specific commercial and engineering interests. Zusammenfassung Geophysics, Realism, and Industry is the first book to simultaneously study the emergence of realist attitudes towards the entities (layers) of the ionosphere and the earth's crust. It proposes a new kind of realism: a realism of social and cultural origins, an entity realism responding to specific commercial and engineering interests. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Introduction Part I: Ionospheric physics and the British radio industry 2: The realist interpretation of atmosphere 3: Epitome of the realist interpretation: The parabolic model Part II: Crustal seismology and the American oil industry 4: The alteration of an epistemic paradigm by a commercial environment 5: From simplicity to realism: Post-war explosion seismology ...
