Vol. 4 No. 1 (2010): Scientific Instruments: Knowledge, Practice, and Culture

Published: 2010-08-30

Focused Discussion

Scientific Instruments: Knowledge, Practice, and Culture [Editor’s Introduction]

Isaac Record

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The Challenge of Authenticating Scientific Objects in Museum Collections: Exposing the Forgery of a Moroccan Astrolabe Allegedly Dated 1845 CE

Ingrid Hehmeyer

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People as Scientific Instruments

Maarten Derksen

21-29
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Equipment for an Experiment

Rom Harré

30-38
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An Instrument for What? Digital Computers, Simulation and Scientific Practice

Wendy S. Parker

39-44
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Great Pyramid Metrology and the Material Politics of Basalt

Michael J. Barany

45-60
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Let Freeness Ring: The Canadian Standard Freeness Tester as Hegemonic Engine

James Hull

61-70
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The Machine Speaks Falsely

Allan Franklin

71-84
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Reading Measuring Instruments

Mario Bunge

85-93
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Engineering Realities

Davis Baird

94-110
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Conceptual Sea Changes

Paul Humphreys

111-115
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Extended Thing Knowledge

Mathieu Charbonneau

116-128
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Otto in the Chinese Room

Philip Murray McCullough

129-137
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Humans not Instruments

Harry Collins

138-147
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Apparatus and Experimentation Revisited

Trevor H. Levere

148-154
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Material Culture and the Dobsonian Telescope

Jessica Ellen Sewell, Andrew Johnston

155-162
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Taming the “Publication Machine”: Generating Unity, Engaging the Trading Zones

François Thoreau, Maria Neicu

163-172
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Concepts as Tools in the Experimental Generation of Knowledge in Cognitive Neuropsychology

Uljana Feest

173-190
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Let Freeness Ring: The Canadian Standard Freeness Tester as Hegemonic Engine

James Hull

61-70
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Articles

Domesticating the Planets: Instruments and Practices in the Development of Planetary Geology

Matthew Benjamin Shindell

191-230
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“Old” Technology in New Hands: Instruments as Mediators of Interdisciplinary Learning in Microfluidics

Dorothy Sutherland Olsen

231-254
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Opinions

Out the Door: A Short History of the University of Toronto Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments

Erich Weidenhammer, Michael Da Silva

255-261
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Reviews

Ian Hesketh. Of Apes and Ancestors: Evolution, Christianity, and the Oxford Debate

Sebastian Assenza

262-265
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Marc Lange. Laws and Lawmakers: Science, Metaphysics, and the Laws of Nature

Christopher Belanger

266-269
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William Sims Bainbridge. The Warcraft Civilization: Social Science in a Virtual World

Bruce J. Petrie

270-272
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Steven Shapin. The Scientific Life: A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation

Michael Cournoyea

273-275
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Learning From Artifacts: A Review of the “Reading Artifacts: Summer Institute in the Material Culture of Science,” Presented by The Canada Science and Technology Museum and Situating Science Cluster

Jaipreet Virdi

276-279
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Aaron A. Cohen-Gadol and Dennis D. Spencer. The Legacy of Harvey Cushing: Profiles of Patient Care

Delia Gavrus

280-282
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Adrian Parr. Hijacking Sustainability

R. Moore

283-285
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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
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David Pantalony. Altered Sensations: Rudolph Koenig’s Acoustical Workshop in Nineteenth-Century Paris

Sarah-Jane Patterson

289-291
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Michael Strevens. Depth: An Account of Scientific Explanation

Anthony Kulic

292-299
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