Mangle of Practice Time, Agency, and Science

Name: Mangle of Practice Time, Agency, and Science
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ISBN: 9780226668031

ISBN-10: 0226668037

ISBN-13: 9780226668031

Edition: 1995

Authors: Andrew Pickering

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This ambitious book by one of the most original and provocative thinkers in science studies offers a sophisticated new understanding of the nature of scientific, mathematical, and engineering practice and the production of scientific knowledge. Andrew Pickering offers a new approach to the unpredictable nature of change in science, taking into account the extraordinary number of factors--social, technological, conceptual, and natural--that interact to affect the creation of scientific knowledge. In his view, machines, instruments, facts, theories, conceptual and mathematical structures, disciplined practices, and human beings are in constantly shifting relationships with one…

Book details

List price: $34.00
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 8/15/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 296
Size: 0.65" wide x 0.88" long x 0.07" tall
Weight: 1.078
Language: English



Preface



The Mangle of Practice



Machines: Building the Bubble Chamber



Facts: The Hunting of the Quark



Concepts: Constructing Quaternions



Technology: Numerically Controlled Machine Tools



Living in the Material World



Through the Mangle


References


Index