| Description |
281 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. The Mangle of Practice -- 2. Machines: Building the Bubble Chamber -- 3. Facts: The Hunting of the Quark -- 4. Concepts: Constructing Quaternions -- 5. Technology: Numerically Controlled Machine Tools -- 6. Living in the Material World -- 7. Through the Mangle |
| Summary |
This ambitious book by one of the most original and provocative thinkers in science studies offers a sophisticated new understanding of the nature of scientific, mathematical, and engineering practice and the production of scientific knowledge. Andrew Pickering offers a new approach to the unpredictable nature of change in science, taking into account the extraordinary number of factors--social, technological, conceptual, and natural--that interact to affect the creation of scientific knowledge. In his view, machines, instruments, facts, theories, conceptual and mathematical structures, discipli |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibiliographical references(pages 253-273) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Science -- Philosophy.
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Science -- Social aspects.
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| LC no. |
94044546 |
| ISBN |
0226668029 (alk. paper) |
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0226668037 (paperback) |
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