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| Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource |
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| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Davis Baird |
| ISBN: | 0520232496 9780520232495 |
| OCLC Number: | 51867952 |
| Description: | xxi, 273 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Instrument epistemology -- Models : representing things -- Working knowledge -- Encapsulating knowledge -- Instrumentation revolution -- Thing knowledge -- The thing-y-ness of things -- Between technology and science -- Instrumental objectivity -- The gift. |
| Responsibility: | Davis Baird. |
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Abstract:
Baird describes the thing-yness of things, and he shows how objects themselves -- especially scientific instruments -- can represent knowledge of the known world. One can theorize on a culture's knowledge by looking at its tools. Often these physical artifacts are the best remaining products of material culture, they identify the theories of science and technology at the time, and any differences indicated the culture's changing needs or philosophy.
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- Scientific apparatus and instruments.
- Science -- Philosophy.
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- Filosofische aspecten.
- Innovation technologique.
- Instrument scientifique.
- Instrumenten.
- Philosophie des sciences.
- Science (Connaissance scientifique)
- Appareils et instruments scientifiques.
- Sciences -- Philosophie.
- Sciences -- Innovations.
- Wissenschaftstheorie.
- Naturwissenschaftliches Instrument.
- Naturwissenschaften.
- Experiment.


