Nature Engaged Science in Practice from the Renaissance to the Present

Name: Nature Engaged Science in Practice from the Renaissance to the Present
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ISBN: 9780230102767

ISBN-10: 023010276X

ISBN-13: 9780230102767

Edition: 2012

Authors: Jessica Riskin, Mario Biagioli

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List price: $121.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date: 12/11/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 301
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.320
Language: English

Mario Biagioli is distinguished professor of law and science and technology studies and director of the Center for Innovation Studies at the University of California, Davis.



List of Figures


Acknowledgments


Introduction: A Mingled Yarn




Conventions



Scientific Conventions: International Assemblies and Technical Standards from the Republic of Letters to Global Science




Practicing Eighteenth-Century Science Today




The Textbook Case of a Priority Dispute: D. I. Mendeleev, Lothar Meyer, and the Periodic System




Complex Systems and Total War: British Operational Research and the PM Statistical Branch at the Beginning of World War II




Laws



Witnessing Astronomy: Kepler on the Uses and Misuses of Testimony




Improvement for Profit: Calculating Machines and the Prehistory of Intellectual Property




Genes, Railroads, and Regulations: Intellectual Property and the Public Interest




Epidemiology, Tort, and the Relations between Science and Law in the Twentieth-Century American Courtroom




Histories



Mercator Maps Time




Rethinking 1633: Writing about Galileo after the Trial




Things



Machines in the Garden




Cosmography and the Meaning of Sundials




The Web of Knowing, Doing, and Patenting: William Thomson's Apparatus Room and the History of Electricity



Notes on Contributors


Index