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  • Objectivity

    by Lorraine Daston, Peter L. Galison ...
    Objectivity has a history, and it is full of surprises. In Objectivity, Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison chart the emergence of objectivity in the mid-nineteenth-century sciences — and show how the concept differs from alternatives, truth-to-nature and trained judgment. This is a story of lofty epistemic ideals fused with workaday practices in the making of scientific images.From the eighteenth ... Read more

    $28.09 USD

  • Einstein's Clocks and Poincare's Maps

    Empires of Time

    by Peter Galison ...
    "More than a history of science; it is a tour de force in the genre." —New York Times Book ReviewA dramatic new account of the parallel quests to harness time that culminated in the revolutionary science of relativity, Einstein's Clocks, Poincaré's Maps is "part history, part science, part adventure, part biography, part meditation on the meaning of modernity....In Galison's telling of science, ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Growing Explanations

    Historical Perspectives on Recent Science

    by Barbara Herrnstein Smith, E. Roy Weintraub, Peter Galison, Amy Dahan Dalmedico ...
    Series series Science and Cultural Theory
    For much of the twentieth century scientists sought to explain objects and processes by reducing them to their components—nuclei into protons and neutrons, proteins into amino acids, and so on—but over the past forty years there has been a marked turn toward explaining phenomena by building them up rather than breaking them down. This collection reflects on the history and significance of this ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Testing Einstein

    One Hundred Years of Experimental Relativity

    Edited by Brian C. Odom, Daniel Kennefick ...
    Series series Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology
    A collection that confronts the reality of experimental gravity, which is different from the conventional—and overly simplistic—understanding.Investigating just over a century of experimental relativity, the individual essays in this volume place the process of experimental relativity within its historical contexts as an interdisciplinary endeavor. Testing Einstein embraces not only the individual ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • The View from Above

    The Science of Social Space

    by Jeanne Haffner ...
    The role of aerial photography in the evolution of the concept of social space”and its impact on French urban planning in the mid-twentieth century.In mid-twentieth century France, the term “social space” (l'espace social)—the idea that spatial form and social life are inextricably linked—emerged in a variety of social science disciplines. Taken up by the French New Left, it also came to inform ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Roots of Special Relativity

    Science and Society

    Edited by Peter Galison, Michael Gordin, David Kaiser ...
    Modern science has changed every aspect of life in ways that cannot be compared to developments of previous eras. This four-volume set presents key developments within modern physical science and the effects of these discoveries on modern global life. The first two volumes explore the history of the concept of relativity, the cultural roots of science, the concept of time and gravity before, ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Quantum Mechanics

    Science and Society

    Edited by Peter Galison, Michael Gordin, David Kaiser ...
    Modern science has changed every aspect of life in ways that cannot be compared to developments of previous eras. This four-volume set presents key developments within modern physical science and the effects of these discoveries on modern global life. The first two volumes explore the history of the concept of relativity, the cultural roots of science, the concept of time and gravity before, ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Picturing Science, Producing Art

    Edited by Peter Galison, Caroline A. Jones ...
    Between the disciplines of art history and the history of science lies a growing field of inquiry into what science and art share as both image-making and knowledge-producing activities. The contributors of Picturing Science, Producing Art occupy this intermediate zone to analyze both scientific and aesthetic representations, utilizing disciplinary perspectives that range from art history to ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Scientific Authorship

    Credit and Intellectual Property in Science

    Edited by Mario Biagioli, Peter Galison ...
    Since the seventeenth century our ideas of scientific authorship have expanded and changed dramatically. In this ambitious volume of new work, Mario Biagioli and Peter Galison have brought together historians of science, literary historians, and historians of the book. Together they track the changing nature and identity of the author in science, both historically and conceptually, from the ... Read more

    $63.99 USD