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The Invisible Industrialist. Manufactures and the Production of Scientific Knowledge.
Gaudillere, Jean-Paul. Ed(S): Lowy, Ilana
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Hardback. Displays the role of industry in the construction of fundamental scientific knowledge through the examination of case studies taken from the history of 19th and 20th-century physics, chemistry and biomedical sciences. Editor(s): Lowy, Ilana. Series: Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History. Num Pages: 392 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTB; KN; PDG; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 34. Weight in Grams: 651.
Industrial methods, and industrially produced instruments, reagents and living organisms are central to research activities today. They play a key role in the homogenization and the diffusion of laboratory practices, thus in their transformation into a stable and unproblematic knowledge about the natural world. This book displays the - frequently invisible - role of industry in the construction of fundamental scientific knowledge through the examination of case studies taken from the history of nineteenth and the twentieth century physics, chemistry and biomedical sciences.
Industrial methods, and industrially produced instruments, reagents and living organisms are central to research activities today. They play a key role in the homogenization and the diffusion of laboratory practices, thus in their transformation into a stable and unproblematic knowledge about the natural world. This book displays the - frequently invisible - role of industry in the construction of fundamental scientific knowledge through the examination of case studies taken from the history of nineteenth and the twentieth century physics, chemistry and biomedical sciences.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
Series
Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History
Number of Pages
379
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780333647530
SKU
V9780333647530
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Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Gaudillere, Jean-Paul. Ed(S): Lowy, Ilana
OTTO SIBUM Fellow Researcher, Max Planck Institut fur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin JEFF HUGHES Lecturer in History of Science and Technology, University of Manchester TERRY SHINN is conducting research ANTHONY TRAVIS Deputy Director, Sidney M. Edelstein Centre for the History and Philosophy of Science, Technology and Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel JORDAN GOODMAN Senior Lecturer in History, University of Manchester Institute ... Read more
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