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The Whipple Museum of the History of Science: Objects and Investigations
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- Book Title
- The Whipple Museum of the History of Science: Objects and Investi
- Publication Date
- 2019-12-05
- Pages
- 352
- ISBN
- 9781108498272
- Subject Area
- Travel, Technology & Engineering, Science
- Publication Name
- Whipple Museum of the History of Science : Objects and Investigations, to Celebrate the 75th Anniversary of R. S. Whipples's Gift to the University of Cambridge
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Item Length
- 10 in
- Subject
- Scientific Instruments, Museums, Tours, Points of Interest, General, History
- Publication Year
- 2019
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.8 in
- Item Weight
- 30 Oz
- Item Width
- 7 in
- Number of Pages
- 352 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-10
1108498272
ISBN-13
9781108498272
eBay Product ID (ePID)
11038427934
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
352 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Whipple Museum of the History of Science : Objects and Investigations, to Celebrate the 75th Anniversary of R. S. Whipples's Gift to the University of Cambridge
Subject
Scientific Instruments, Museums, Tours, Points of Interest, General, History
Publication Year
2019
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Travel, Technology & Engineering, Science
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
30 Oz
Item Length
10 in
Item Width
7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Reviews
'The Whipple Museum and its associated scholars continue to illuminate how matter and meaning intersect in fourteen fascinating items from the collection, from mosses to mechanical monkeys, computers to cloud cameras. Taken together, these lively essays are an object lesson in how close attention to the material history of science changes how we think about what science is, who does it, and how it changes.' Lorraine Daston, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
502.84
Table Of Content
Introduction Liba Taub and Joshua Nall; 1. Sacred astronomy? Beyond the stars on a Whipple astrolabe Seb Falk; 2. What were portable astronomical instruments used for in late-medieval England, and how much were they actually carried around? Catherine Eagleton; 3. 'Sundials and other cosmographical instruments': historical categories and historians' categories in the study of mathematical instruments and disciplines Adam Mosley; 4. 'That incomparable instrument maker': the reputation of Henry Sutton Jim Bennett; 5. Specimens of observation: Edward Hobson's Musci Britannici Anne Secord; 6. Ideas embodied in metal: Babbage's engines dismembered and remembered Simon Schaffer; 7. Galvanometers and the many lives of scientific instruments Charlotte Connelly and Hasok Chang; 8. Buying antique scientific instruments at the turn of the twentieth century: a data-driven analysis of Lewis Evans' and Robert Stewart Whipple's collecting habits Tabitha Thomas; 9. Like a Bos: the discovery of fake antique scientific instruments at the Whipple Museum Boris Jardine; 10. Wanted weeds: environmental history in the Whipple Museum Helen Curry; 11. What 'Consul, the Educated Monkey' can teach us about early twentieth-century mathematics, learning, and vaudeville Caitlin Wylie; 12. Robin Hill's cloud camera: meteorological communication, cloud classification Henry Schmidt; 13. Chicken heads and Punnett squares: Reginald Punnett and the role of visualizations in early genetics research at Cambridge, 1900-1930 Matthew Green; 14. Stacks, 'pacs', and user hacks: a handheld history of personal computing Michael F. Mcgovern.
Synopsis
This collection of essays by noted historians provides examples of the study of the material culture of science. The essays demonstrate how the study of scientific objects offers a window into cultures of scientific practice not afforded by textual sources alone. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core., In this book the diverse objects of the Whipple Museum of the History of Science's internationally renowned collection are brought into sharp relief by a number of highly regarded historians of science in fourteen essays. Each chapter focuses on a specific instrument or group of objects, ranging from an English medieval astrolabe to a modern agricultural 'seed source indicator' to a curious collection of plaster chicken heads. The contributors employ a range of historiographical and methodological approaches to demonstrate the various ways in which the material culture of science can be researched and understood. The essays show how the study of scientific objects - including instruments and models - offers a window into cultures of scientific practice not afforded by textual sources alone. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
LC Classification Number
Q180.G7W445 2019
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