Expeditions As Experiments
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Expeditions as Experiments
Author | : Marianne Klemun,Ulrike Spring |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 301 |
Release | : 2016-10-18 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9781137581068 |
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This collection focuses on different expeditions and their role in the process of knowledge acquisition from the eighteenth century onwards. It investigates various forms of scientific practice conducted during, after and before expeditions, and it places this discussion into the scientific context of experiments. In treating expeditions as experiments in a heuristic sense, we also propose that the expedition is a variation on the laboratory in which different practices can be conducted and where the transformation of uncertain into certain knowledge is tested. The experimental positioning of the expedition brings together an ensemble of techniques, strategies, material agents and social actors, and illuminates the steps leading from observation to facts and documentation. The chapters show the variety of scientific interests that motivated expeditions with their focus on natural history, geology, ichthyology, botany, zoology, helminthology, speleology, physical anthropology, oceanography, meteorology and magnetism.
Live from Space
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science. Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : PSU:000058170540 |
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Higher and Colder
Author | : Vanessa Heggie |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2019-08-02 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780226650913 |
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During the long twentieth century, explorers went in unprecedented numbers to the hottest, coldest, and highest points on the globe. Taking us from the Himalaya to Antarctica and beyond, Higher and Colder presents the first history of extreme physiology, the study of the human body at its physical limits. Each chapter explores a seminal question in the history of science, while also showing how the apparently exotic locations and experiments contributed to broader political and social shifts in twentieth-century scientific thinking. Unlike most books on modern biomedicine, Higher and Colder focuses on fieldwork, expeditions, and exploration, and in doing so provides a welcome alternative to laboratory-dominated accounts of the history of modern life sciences. Though centered on male-dominated practices—science and exploration—it recovers the stories of women’s contributions that were sometimes accidentally, and sometimes deliberately, erased. Engaging and provocative, this book is a history of the scientists and physiologists who face challenges that are physically demanding, frequently dangerous, and sometimes fatal, in the interest of advancing modern science and pushing the boundaries of human ability.
Air Service Information Circular
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 1640 |
Release | : 1923 |
Genre | : Aeronautics, Military |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105127327000 |
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Report on the Agricultural Experiment Stations
Author | : United States. Agricultural Research Service |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 656 |
Release | : 1903 |
Genre | : Agricultural experiment stations |
ISBN | : CHI:096831554 |
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Annual Report of the Office of Experiment Stations for the Year Ended
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 654 |
Release | : 1903 |
Genre | : Agricultural experiment stations |
ISBN | : MINN:31951D03308331J |
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Thought Experiments
Author | : Roy A. Sorensen Associate Professor of Philosophy New York University |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 1992-08-06 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780198023807 |
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Sorensen presents a general theory of thought experiments: what they are, how they work, what are their virtues and vices. On Sorensen's view, philosophy differs from science in degree, but not in kind. For this reason, he claims, it is possible to understand philosophical thought experiments by concentrating on their resemblance to scientific relatives. Lessons learned about scientific experimentation carry over to thought experiment, and vice versa. Sorensen also assesses the hazards and pseudo-hazards of thought experiments. Although he grants that there are interesting ways in which the method leads us astray, he attacks most scepticism about thought experiments as arbitrary. They should be used, he says, as they generally are used--as part of a diversified portfolio of techniques. All of these devices are individually susceptible to abuse, fallacy, and error. Collectively, however, they provide a network of cross-checks that make for impressive reliability.
Theory and Experiment in Gravitational Physics
Author | : Clifford M. Will |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 1993-03-11 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0521439736 |
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This is a revised edition of a classic and highly regarded book, first published in 1981, describing the status of theory and experiment in general relativity. The book provides all the necessary theoretical background, and covers all the important experimental tests. A new chapter has been added to cover recent important experimental tests, and the bibliography has been brought right up to date. Reviews of the previous edition: ' ... consolidates much of the literature on experimental gravity and should be invaluable to researchers in gravitation ...' Science ' ... a concise and meaty book ... and a most useful reference work ... researchers and serious students of gravitation should be pleased with it ...' Nature