Image and Logic A Material Culture of Microphysics

Name: Image and Logic A Material Culture of Microphysics
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ISBN: 9780226279176

ISBN-10: 0226279170

ISBN-13: 9780226279176

Edition: 1997

Authors: Peter L. Galison

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"I want to get at the blown glass of the early cloud chambers and the oozing noodles of wet nuclear emulsion; to the resounding crack of a high-voltage spark arcing across a high-tension chamber and leaving the lab stinking of ozone; to the silent, darkened room, with row after row of scanners sliding trackballs across projected bubble-chamber images. Pictures and pulses—I want to know where they came from, how pictures and counts got to be the bottom-line data of physics." (from the preface) Image and Logic is the most detailed engagement to date with the impact of modern technology on what it means to "do" physics and to be a physicist. At the beginning of this century, physics was…

Book details

List price: $69.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 10/1/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 982
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.75" tall
Weight: 2.838
Language: English



List of Figures Preface



Introduction: Image and Logic



Cloud Chambers: The Peculiar Genius of British Physics



Nuclear Emulsions: The Anxiety of the Experimenter



Laboratory War: Radar Philosophy and the Los Alamos Man



Bubble Chambers: Factories of Physics



The Electronic Image: Iconoclasm and the New Icons



Time Projection Chambers: An Image Falling through Space



Monte Carlo Simulations: Artificial Reality



The Trading Zone: Coordinating Action and Belief Abbreviations for Archival Sources


Bibliography


Index