Scientific practice : theories and stories of doing physics / edited by Jed Z. Buchwald.
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TextPublication details: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 1995.Description: xiii, 398 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: - 0226078892 (cl : acidfree paper)
- 0226078906 (pbk. : acidfree paper)
- 530/.0724 20
- QC33 .S33 1995
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 353-383) and index.
1. Introduction / Ian Hacking -- 2. Context and Constraints / Peter L. Galison -- 3. Beyond Constraint: The Temporality of Practice and the Historicity of Knowledge / Andrew Pickering -- 4. Experimenting in the Natural Sciences: A Philosophical Approach / Hans Radder -- 5. Scientific Practice: The View from the Tabletop / Brian S. Baigrie -- 6. Following Scientists through Society? Yes, but at Arm's Length! / Yves Gingras -- 7. Why Hertz Was Right about Cathode Rays / Jed Z. Buchwald -- 8. Is the Identification of Experimental Error Contextually Dependent? The Case of Kaufmann's Experiment and Its Varied Reception / Giora Hon -- 9. Scientific Conclusions and Philosophical Arguments: An Inessential Tension / Margaret Morrison -- 10. Where Experiments End: Tabletop Trials in Victorian Astronomy / Simon Schaffer -- 11. The Sturdy Protestants of Science: Larmor, Trouton, and the Earth's Motion through the Ether / Andrew Warwick --
Conclusion / Jed Z. Buchwald and Sylvan S. Schweber.
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