Models: The Third Dimension of Science

ISBN-13: 9780804739726 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 488 str.

Soraya de Chadarevian

Opis

Museum-based researchers and historian, philosophers, and sociologists of science and medicine explore the three-dimensionality of important groups of models developed in western Europe and the US since the middle 18th century, and explore their roles in making knowledge. Among their topics are plastic anatomies and artificial dissections, monsters

Recenzje

"...this collection of essays [provides] rich food for thought, and [is] a valuable source of material for comparison that goes well beyond the study of three dimensional models and includes, for example, the history of science as material culture, relationships between science and the public, and the relationship between different media in scientific practice."-Social Studies of Science

O autorze

Soraya de Chadarevian is Senior Research Associate in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge. She is the author, most recently, of Designs for Life: Molecular Biology after World War II (2002). Nick Hopwood is Lecturer in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge. His publications include Embryos in Wax: Models from the Ziegler Studio (2002).