The Mangle of Practice - Pickering, Andrew
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Preface 1: The Mangle of Practice 2: Machines: Building the Bubble Chamber 3: Facts: The Hunting of the Quark 4: Concepts: Constructing Quaternions 5: Technology: Numerically Controlled Machine Tools 6: Living in the Material World 7: Through the Mangle References Index
This text offers an understanding of the nature of scientific, mathematical and engineering practice, and the production of scientific knowledge. The author presents an approach to the unpredictable nature of change in science, taking into account a number of factors.

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Preface 1: The Mangle of Practice 2: Machines: Building the Bubble Chamber 3: Facts: The Hunting of the Quark 4: Concepts: Constructing Quaternions 5: Technology: Numerically Controlled Machine Tools 6: Living in the Material World 7: Through the Mangle References Index
This text offers an understanding of the nature of scientific, mathematical and engineering practice, and the production of scientific knowledge. The author presents an approach to the unpredictable nature of change in science, taking into account a number of factors.
Autorenporträt
Andrew Pickering is professor and chair of sociology at the University of Exeter. He is the author of several books, including Constructing Quarks: A Sociological History of Particle Physics and The Mangle of Practice: Time, Agency, and Science, both published by the University of Chicago Press.