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Observation is the most pervasive and fundamental practice of all the modern sciences, both natural and human. Its instruments include not only the naked senses but also tools such as the telescope and microscope, the questionnaire, the photographic plate, the notebook, the glassed-in beehive, and m...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Bertoloni Meli, Domenico (Contribuidor), Bigg, Charlotte (Contribuidor), Bleichmar, Daniela (Contribuidor), Canales, Jimena (Contribuidor), Daston, Loraine (Contribuidor), Daston, Lorraine (Contribuidor, Editor ), Dror, Otniel E. (Contribuidor), Gordin, Michael D. (Contribuidor), Lunbeck, Elizabeth (Contribuidor, Editor ), Maas, Harro (Contribuidor), Mendelsohn, J. Andrew (Contribuidor), Morgan, Mary S. (Contribuidor), Park, Katharine (Contribuidor), Pomata, Gianna (Contribuidor), Porter, Theodore M. (Contribuidor), Secord, Anne (Contribuidor), Terrall, Mary (Contribuidor), Wilder, Kelley (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2011]
Temas:
Observation (Scientific method) > History.
Science > Methodology > History.
SCIENCE / General.
history, historical, science, scientist, research, study, methodology, methods, hypothesis, ethics, modern, contemporary, disciplines, sciences, natural, human, nature, telescope, microscope, technology, inventions, invisible, innovation, inquiry, academic, scholarly, meteorology, medicine, economics, astronomy, psychology, analysis, perception.
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  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: Observation Observed
  • Part One. Framing the History of Scientific Observation, 500-1800
  • Introduction
  • 1. Observation in the Margins, 500-1500
  • 2. Observation Rising: Birth of an Epistemic Genre, 1500-1650
  • 3. The Empire of Observation, 1600-1800
  • Part Two. Observing and Believing: Evidence
  • Introduction
  • 4. The Color of Blood: Between Sensory Experience and Epistemic Significance
  • 5. Seeing Is Believing: Professor Vagner's Wonderful World
  • 6. A Visual History of Jean Perrin's Brownian Motion Curves
  • Part Three. Observing in New Ways: Techniques
  • Introduction
  • 7. Frogs on the Mantelpiece: The Practice of Observation in Daily Life
  • 8. Sorting Things Out: The Economist as an Armchair Observer
  • 9. "A Number of Scenes in a Badly Cut Film": Observation in the Age of Strobe
  • 10. Empathy as a Psychoanalytic Mode of Observation: Between Sentiment and Science
  • Part Four. Observing New Things: Objects
  • Introduction
  • 11. Reforming Vision: The Engineer Le Play Learns to Observe Society Sagely
  • 12. Seeking Parts, Looking for Wholes
  • 13. Seeing the Blush: Feeling Emotions
  • 14. Visualizing Radiation: The Photographs of Henri Becquerel
  • Part Five. Observing Together: Communities
  • Introduction
  • 15. The Geography of Observation: Distance and Visibility in Eighteenth-Century Botanical Travel
  • 16. The World on a Page: Making a General Observation in the Eighteenth Century
  • 17. Coming to Attention: A Commonwealth of Observers during the Napoleonic Wars
  • Contributors
  • Index

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