In Predicting the Weather, Anderson grapples with fundamental questions about the function, intelligibility, and boundaries of scientific work while exposing the public expectations that shaped the practice of science during this period.
... 0226019683 , $ 45.00 ( hardback ) . DOI : 10.1177 / 0963662507084335 In this rich and fascinating book , Katharine Anderson tells a multi - faceted story of meteorol- ogy in Victorian Britain . There are two overall points of focus ...
... 0226019683 Reviewed by Roy Herbert PABDY0TINO THI VIATHER ANDERSON risks fatiguing her readers by dwelling on every detail of her subject . But her narrative of early attempts to forecast the weather is interesting and so should ...
In this history of materials, the authors link chemical science with chemical technology, challenging our current understandings of objects in the history of science and the distinction between scientific and technological objects.
In Inventing Temperature, Chang examines how scientists first created thermometers; how they measured temperature beyond the reach of standard thermometers; and how they managed to assess the reliability and accuracy of these instruments ...
What does it mean to study scientific practices? What are the general lessons, implications, and new challenges? This volume explores questions about the practice turn using both case studies and theoretical analysis.
This volume in the prestigious Library of Living Philosophers series contains 26 chapters original to this work, each written by a well-known philosopher, including the late Richard Rorty and the late Michael Dummett.
This book exhibits deep philosophical quandaries and intricacies of the historical development of science lying behind a simple and fundamental item of common sense in modern science, namely the composition of water as H2O.