Image and Logic

Informationen zum Autor Peter Galison is Mallinckrodt Professor of the History of Science and of Physics at Harvard University. He is author of How Experiments End , published by the University of Chicago Press, and coeditor of The Disunity of Science: Contexts, Boundaries, and Power . Klappentext List of Figures Preface 1: Introduction: Image and Logic 2: Cloud Chambers: The Peculiar Genius of British Physics 3: Nuclear Emulsions: The Anxiety of the Experimenter 4: Laboratory War: Radar Philosophy and the Los Alamos Man 5: Bubble Chambers: Factories of Physics 6: The Electronic Image: Iconoclasm and the New Icons 7: Time Projection Chambers: An Image Falling through Space 8: Monte Carlo Simulations: Artificial Reality 9: The Trading Zone: Coordinating Action and Belief Abbreviations for Archival Sources Bibliography Index Zusammenfassung Engages with the impact of modern technology on experimental physicists. This study reveals how the increasing scale and complexity of apparatus has distanced physicists from the very science which drew them into experimenting! and has fragmented microphysics into different technical traditions.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Galison, Galison Peter
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.09.1997
• EAN: 9780226279176
• ISBN: 978-0-226-27917-6
• No. of pages: 977
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 230 mm x 42 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); SCIENCE / Physics / General, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Social Aspects, SCIENCE / Scientific Instruments, SCIENCE / Laboratory Techniques, Physics, Impact of science & technology on society, Impact of science and technology on society, Scientific equipment, experiments & techniques, Scientific equipment, experiments and techniques, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Technology Studies