Histories of scientific observation /
"Observation is the most pervasive and fundamental practice of all the modern sciences, both natural and human. Its instruments include not only the naked senses but also tools such as the telescope and microscope, the questionnaire, the photographic plate, the notebook, the glassed-in beehive,...
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2011
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Table of Contents:
- Observation in the margins, 500-1500 / Katharine Park
- Observation rising : birth of an epistemic genre, 1500-1650 / Gianna Pomata
- The empire of observation, 1600-1800 / Lorraine Daston
- The color of blood : between sensory experience and epistemic significance / Domenico Bertoloni Meli
- Seeing is believing : Professor Vagner's wonderful world / Michael D. Gordin
- A visual history of Jean Perrin's Brownian motion curves / Charlotte Bigg
- Frogs on the mantelpiece : the practice of observation in daily life / Mary Terrall
- Sorting things out : The economist as an armchair observer / Harro Maas
- "A number of scenes in a badly cut film" : observation in the age of strobe / Jimena Canales
- Empathy as a psychoanalytic mode of observation : between sentiment and science / Elizabeth Lunbeck
- Reforming vision : the engineer Le Play learns to observe society sagely / Theodore M. Porter
- Seeking parts, looking for wholes / Mary S. Morgan
- Seeing the blush : feeling emotions / Otniel E. Dror
- Visualizing radiation : the photographs of Henri Becquerel / Kelley Wilder
- The geography of observation : distance and visibility in eighteenth-century botanical travel / Daniela Bleichmar
- The world on a page : making a general observation in the eighteenth century / J. Andrew Mendelsohn
- Coming to attention : a commonwealth of observers during the Napoleonic Wars / Anne Secord.
