Inscribing Science: Scientific Texts and the Materiality of Communication

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Stanford University Press, 1998 - 457 من الصفحات
Recent science and technology studies have been characterized by a rich diversity of research directions, manifesting several trends apparently counter to one another. On the one hand stands the rich tradition of detailed microstudies of experiments, instruments, and scientific practice; on the other hand are grouped studies grander in scope, aimed at examining science within the framework of cultural production. This volume of sixteen essays seeks common ground among these different approaches by juxtaposing work from historically focused science and literature studies with work inspired by poststructuralist philosophy and semiotics.

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Inscription Practices and Materialities of Communication I
1
FIGURES
10
The Language of Strange Facts in Early Modern Science
20
St Jacobs Day 1506
28
Mathematics Computing
39
The Technology of Mathematical Persuasion
55
On the Takeoff of Operators
70
The Nutt Case
78
Literary Technology
182
Slough
191
Nebula 1867
205
Technology Aesthetics and the Development
223
Standards and Semiotics
249
Experimental Systems Graphematic Spaces
285
Vitality and Theology in Artificial Life
304
TABLE
318

The Helvetic
91
England and the Insular Condition
119
Illustration as Strategy in Charles Darwins The Expression
140
Philosophy of Expression
153
Same when Pleased by Being Caressed
159
Two National Narratives of Failure
328
Moving Pictures and Their
351
Notes
367
Index
443
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Timothy Lenoir is Professor of the History of Science at Stanford University. He is the author, most recently, of Instituting Science: The Cultural Production of Scientific Disciplines (Stanford, 1997).

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