Vol 4, No 1 (2010): Scientific Instruments: Knowledge, Practice, and Culture
Table of Contents
Focused Discussion
| Scientific Instruments: Knowledge, Practice, and Culture [Editor’s Introduction] | |
| Isaac Record | 1-7 |
| The Challenge of Authenticating Scientific Objects in Museum Collections: Exposing the Forgery of a Moroccan Astrolabe Allegedly Dated 1845 CE | |
| Ingrid Hehmeyer | 8-20 |
| People as Scientific Instruments | |
| Maarten Derksen | 21-29 |
| Equipment for an Experiment | |
| Rom Harré | 30-38 |
| An Instrument for What? Digital Computers, Simulation and Scientific Practice | |
| Wendy S. Parker | 39-44 |
| Great Pyramid Metrology and the Material Politics of Basalt | |
| Michael J. Barany | 45-60 |
| Let Freeness Ring: The Canadian Standard Freeness Tester as Hegemonic Engine | |
| James Hull | 61-70 |
| The Machine Speaks Falsely | |
| Allan Franklin | 71-84 |
| Reading Measuring Instruments | |
| Mario Bunge | 85-93 |
| Engineering Realities | |
| Davis Baird | 94-110 |
| Conceptual Sea Changes | |
| Paul Humphreys | 111-115 |
| Extended Thing Knowledge | |
| Mathieu Charbonneau | 116-128 |
| Otto in the Chinese Room | |
| Philip Murray McCullough | 129-137 |
| Humans not Instruments | |
| Harry Collins | 138-147 |
| Apparatus and Experimentation Revisited | |
| Trevor H. Levere | 148-154 |
| Material Culture and the Dobsonian Telescope | |
| Jessica Ellen Sewell, Andrew Johnston | 155-162 |
| Taming the “Publication Machine”: Generating Unity, Engaging the Trading Zones | |
| François Thoreau, Maria Neicu | 163-172 |
| Concepts as Tools in the Experimental Generation of Knowledge in Cognitive Neuropsychology | |
| Uljana Feest | 173-190 |
Articles
| Domesticating the Planets: Instruments and Practices in the Development of Planetary Geology | |
| Matthew Benjamin Shindell | 191-230 |
| “Old” Technology in New Hands: Instruments as Mediators of Interdisciplinary Learning in Microfluidics | |
| Dorothy Sutherland Olsen | 231-254 |
Opinions
| Out the Door: A Short History of the University of Toronto Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments | |
| Erich Weidenhammer, Michael Da Silva | 255-261 |
Reviews
| Ian Hesketh. Of Apes and Ancestors: Evolution, Christianity, and the Oxford Debate | |
| Sebastian Assenza | 262-265 |
| Marc Lange. Laws and Lawmakers: Science, Metaphysics, and the Laws of Nature | |
| Christopher Belanger | 266-269 |
| William Sims Bainbridge. The Warcraft Civilization: Social Science in a Virtual World | |
| Bruce J. Petrie | 270-272 |
| Steven Shapin. The Scientific Life: A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation | |
| Michael Cournoyea | 273-275 |
| Aaron A. Cohen-Gadol and Dennis D. Spencer. The Legacy of Harvey Cushing: Profiles of Patient Care | |
| Delia Gavrus | 280-282 |
| Adrian Parr. Hijacking Sustainability | |
| R. Moore | 283-285 |
| Eileen Crist and H. Bruce Rinker, eds. Gaia in Turmoil: Climate Change, Biodepletion and Earth Ethics in an Age of Crisis | |
| Julia Agapitos | 286-288 |
| David Pantalony. Altered Sensations: Rudolph Koenig’s Acoustical Workshop in Nineteenth-Century Paris | |
| Sarah-Jane Patterson | 289-291 |
| Michael Strevens. Depth: An Account of Scientific Explanation | |
| Anthony Kulic | 292-299 |
ISSN: 1913-0465
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