Histories of Scientific Observation

Name: Histories of Scientific Observation
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ISBN: 9780226136783

ISBN-10: 0226136787

ISBN-13: 9780226136783

Edition: 2010

Authors: Lorraine Daston, Elizabeth Lunbeck

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Observation is the most pervasive and fundamental practice of all the modern sciences, both natural and human. Its instruments include not only the naked senses but also tools such as the telescope and microscope, the questionnaire, the photographic plate, the notebook, the glassed-in beehive, and myriad other ingenious inventions designed to make the invisible visible, the evanescent permanent, the abstract concrete. Yet observation has almost never been considered as an object of historical inquiry in itself. This wide-ranging collection offers the first examination of the history of scientific observation in its own right, as both epistemic category and scientific practice. Histories of…

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List price: $37.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 2/1/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 480
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.70" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English

Lorraine Daston is director at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science and honorary professor at the Humboldt-Universitï¿½t, Berlin.Gregg Mitman is William Coleman Professor of the History of Science and professor of medical history and science and technology studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.



Introduction: Observation Observed




Framing the History of Scientific Observation, 500-1800


Introduction



Observation in the Margins, 500-1500




Observation Rising: Birth of an Epistemic Genre, 1500-1650




The Empire of Observation, 1600 -1800




Observing and Believing: Evidence


Introduction



The Color of Blood: Between Sensory Experience and Epistemic Significance




Seeing Is Believing: Professor Vagner's Wonderful World




A Visual History of Jean Perrin's Brownian Motion Curves




Observing in New Ways: Techniques


Introduction



Frogs on the Mantelpiece: The Practice of Observation in Daily Life




Sorting Things Out: The Economist as an Armchair Observer




"A Number of Scenes in a Badly Cut Film": Observation in the Age of Strobe




Empathy as a Psychoanalytic Mode of Observation: Between Sentiment and Science




Observing New Things: Objects


Introduction



Reforming Vision: The Engineer Le Play Learns to Observe Society Sagely




Seeking Parts, Looking for Wholes




Seeing the Blush: Feeling Emotions




Visualizing Radiation: The Photographs of Henri Becquerel




Observing Together: Communities


Introduction



The Geography of Observation: Distance and Visibility in Eighteenth-Century Botanical Travel




The World on a Page: Making a General Observation in the Eighteenth Century




Coming to Attention: A Commonwealth of Observers during the Napoleonic Wars



List of Contributors


Index