9780226279176 - image and logic: material culture of microphysics: a material culture of microphysics von galison, peter (14 Ergebnisse)

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paperback. Zustand: Fair. Inscribed in black ink cursive on main title page: "To David, with best regards & gratitude for good discussions. peter galison. 3-14-98" Author's Harvard email address is written on last page of the book, in the same handwriting as the inscription at front of book. Sunned and soiled softbound cover. Soiled edge. Stain page Vi & vii. Bumped corners. Underlining and notes in margin. Signed.…

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Zustand: New. 1997. 1st Edition. Paperback. Engages with the impact of modern technology on experimental physicists. This study reveals how the increasing scale and complexity of apparatus has distanced physicists from the very science which drew them into experimenting, and has fragmented microphysics into different technical traditions. Num Pages: 977 pages, 8 halftones, 113 line drawings. BIC Classification: PDN; PDR; PH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 150 x 47. Weight in Grams: 1384. Material Culture of Microphysics. 977 pages, 8 halftones, 113 line drawings. Engages with the impact of modern technology on experimental physicists. This study reveals how the increasing scale and complexity of apparatus has distanced physicists from the very science which drew them into experimenting, and has fragmented microphysics into different technical traditions. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: PDN; PDR; PH. Dimension: 224 x 150 x 47. Weight: 1320. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.…

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Zustand: New. Engages with the impact of modern technology on experimental physicists. This study reveals how the increasing scale and complexity of apparatus has distanced physicists from the very science which drew them into experimenting, and has fragmented microphysi.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 1st edition. 982 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.75 inches. In Stock.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'I want to get at the blown glass of the early cloud chambers and the oozing noodles of wet nuclear emulsion; to the resounding crack of a high-voltage spark arcing across a high-tension chamber and leaving the lab stinking of ozone; to the silent, darkened room, with row after row of scanners sliding trackballs across projected bubble-chamber images. Pictures and pulses--I want to know where they came from, how pictures and counts got to be the bottom-line data of physics.' (from the preface) Image and Logic is the most detailed engagement to date with the impact of modern technology on what it means to 'do' physics and to be a physicist. At the beginning of this century, physics was usually done by a lone researcher who put together experimental apparatus on a benchtop. Now experiments frequently are larger than a city block, and experimental physicists live very different lives: programming computers, working with industry, coordinating vast teams of scientists and engineers, and playing politics. Peter L. Galison probes the material culture of experimental microphysics to reveal how the ever-increasing scale and complexity of apparatus have distanced physicists from the very science that drew them into experimenting, and have fragmented microphysics into different technical traditions much as apparatus have fragmented atoms to get at the fundamental building blocks of matter. At the same time, the necessity for teamwork in operating multimillion-dollar machines has created dynamic 'trading zones,' where instrument makers, theorists, and experimentalists meet, share knowledge, and coordinate the extraordinarily diverse pieces of the culture of modern microphysics: work, machines, evidence, and argument. …