Inscribing science : scientific texts and the materiality of communication / edited by Timothy Lenoir.
| Uniform Title: | Writing science.
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| Language: | English |
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Stanford, Calif. :
Stanford University Press,
1998.
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| Series: | Writing science.
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| Physical Description: | xv, 457 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Inscription practices and materialities of communication / Timothy Lenoir
- The language of strange facts in early modern science / Lorraine Daston
- Shaping information: mathematics, computing, and typography / Robin Rider
- The technology of mathematical persuasion / Brian Rotman
- On the take-off of operators / Friedrich Kittler
- Switchboards and sex: the Nut(t) case / Bernhard Siegert
- Politics on the topographer's table: the Helvetic triangulation of cartography, politics, and representation / David Gugerli
- Writing Darwin's islands: England and the insular condition / Gillian Beer
- Illustration as strategy in Charles Darwin's The expression of the emotions in man and animals / Phillip Prodger
- The Leviathan of Parsonstown: literary technology and scientific representation / Simon Schaffer
- Technology, aesthetics, and the development of astrophotography at the Lick Observatory / Alex Pang
- Standards and semiotics / Robert Brain
- Experimental systems, graphematic spaces / Hans-Jörg Rheinberger
- Emergent power: vitality and theology in artificial life / Richard M. Doyle
- Science and writing: two national narratives of failure / Lisa Bloom
- Perception versus experience: moving pictures and their resistance to interpretation / Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht.