Histories of scientific observation

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Histories of scientific observation : ed. by Lorraine Daston and Elizabeth Lunbeck

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Daston, Lorraine (Editor), Lunbeck, Elizabeth (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	German
Published:	Chicago [u.a.] : Univ. of Chicago Press, 2011
Subjects:	Wissenschaftliche Beobachtung Geschichte Aufsatzsammlung
Contents/pieces:	17 records
Online Access:	Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Observation rising: birth of an epistemic genre : 1500 - 1650

2. Observation in the Margins : 500 - 1500

3. The empire of observation : 1600 - 1800

4. Coming to attention : a commonwealth of observers during the napoleonic wars

5. The world on a page : making general observation in the eighteenth century

6. Empathy as a psychoanalytic mode of observation : between sentiment and science

7. "A number of scenes in a badly cut film" : Observation in the age of Strobe

8. A visual history of Jean Perrińs Brownian Motion Curves

9. Sorting things out : the economist as an armchair observer

10. Visualizing radiation : the photographs of Henri Becquerel

11. Seeing is believing: Professor Vagneŕs 'Wonderful World'

12. The color of blood: between sensory experience and epistemic significance

13. Seeing the blush : feeling emotions

14. The geography of observation : distance and visibility in eighteenth-century botancial travel

15. Frogs on Mantelpieces : the practice of observation in daily life

16. Reforming vision : the engineer Le Play learns to observe society sagely

17. Seeking Parts, looking for wholes