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Models: The Third Dimension of Science
Nick Hopwood
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Description for Models: The Third Dimension of Science
Paperback. Editor(s): Chadarevian, Soraya de; Hopwood, Nick. Series: Writing Science. Num Pages: 488 pages, 97 illustrations, 6 figures. BIC Classification: JNV; PD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 26. Weight in Grams: 648.
Now that ‘3-D models’ are so often digital displays on flat screens, it is timely to look back at the solid models that were once the third dimension of science. This book is about wooden ships and plastic molecules, wax bodies and a perspex economy, monuments in cork and mathematics in plaster, casts of diseases, habitat dioramas, and extinct monsters rebuilt in bricks and mortar. These remarkable artefacts were fixtures of laboratories and lecture halls, studios and workshops, dockyards and museums. Considering such objects together for the first time, this interdisciplinary volume demonstrates how, in research as well as in ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
488
Condition
New
Series
Writing Science
Number of Pages
488
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804739726
SKU
V9780804739726
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99-50
About Nick Hopwood
Soraya de Chadarevian is Senior Research Associate in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge. She is the author, most recently, of Designs for Life: Molecular Biology after World War II (2002). Nick Hopwood is Lecturer in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge. His publications include Embryos in Wax: Models from ... Read more
Reviews for Models: The Third Dimension of Science
"...this collection of essays [provides] rich food for thought, and [is] a valuable source of material for comparison that goes well beyond the study of three dimensional models and includes, for example, the history of science as material culture, relationships between science and the public, and the relationship between different media in scientific practice."—Social Studies of Science "This finely focused ... Read more