Inscribing science : scientific texts and the materiality of communication / edited by Timothy Lenoir.

Other author Lenoir, Timothy, 1948-
Format Book
Publication InfoStanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1998.
Descriptionxv, 457 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subjects
Communication in science.
Communication in science--Philosophy.

SeriesWriting science
Writing science. ^A350611
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [367]-441) and index.
LCCN 97029112
ISBN0804727767 (cloth : alk.paper)
ISBN0804727775 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks Q223 .I497 1998 ✔ Available Place Hold