Reworking the Bench (eBook, PDF)

Research Notebooks in the History of Science
Redaktion: Holmes, F. L.; Rheinberger, Hans-Jörg; Renn, J.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This is the first book that addresses the issue of research notes for writing history of science in a comprehensive manner. Its case studies range from the early modern period to present and cover a broad range of different disciplines. The contributions are based on papers presented at the workshop entitled "Reworking the Bench: Laboratory Notebooks in the History of Science", held at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin or written after the workshop.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Netherlands
• Seitenzahl: 326
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. April 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780306481529
• Artikelnr.: 44052007

Inhaltsangabe

The Hanging Chain: A Forgotten "Discovery" Buried in Galileo's Notes on Mition.- The Chymical Laboratory Notebooks of George Starkey.- Newton's Optical Notebooks: Public Versus Private Data.- At Play with Nature: Luigi Galvani's Experimental Approach to Muscular Physiology.- The Practice of Studying Practice: Analyzing Research Records of Ampère and Faraday.- From Agents to Cells: Theodor Schwann's Research Notes of the Years 1835-1838.- Narrating by Numbers: Keeping an Account of Early 19th Century Laboratory Experiences.- Exploring Contents and Boundaries of Experimental Practice in Laboratory Notebooks: Samuel Pierpont Langley and the Mapping of the Infra-Red Region of the Solar Spectrum.- The Pocket Schedule.- From Lone Investigator to Laboratory Chief: Ivan Pavlov's Research Notebooks as a Reflection of His Managerial and Interpretive Style.- Carl Correns' Experiments with Pisum, 1896-1899.- Errors and Insights: Reconstructing the Genesis of General Relativity from Einstein's Zurich Notebook.- Hans Krebs' and Kurt Henseleit's Laboratory Notebooks and Their Discovery of the Urea Cycle-Reconstructed with Computer Models.- Laboratory Notebooks and Investigative Pathways.- The Scholar's Seeing Eye.

Rezensionen

From the reviews: "Reworking the Bench provides a splendid survey of the work of 15 historians of science, experts in different areas and periods of modern age, with many years of experience in this kind of historical investigation. ... the essays also contain interesting general epistemological results. ... research notes prove to be indispensable for disclosing the underlying aspects of research that are kept secret by the official accounts like published articles or autobiographical records." (Ariane Dröscher, History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, Vol. 27, 2005)