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How Experiments End
Peter GalisonThere have been many books on one or another part of its subject matter but few giving such insights into how the research is done and how the consensus of discovery is arrived at."—Frank Close, New Scientist "[Galison] is to be ...
Fawnsberg Highlighter Set
GalisonThe Fawnsberg Highlighter Set, part of a collaborative collection with Galison, is a colorful addition to any desk.
Woodland Book of Labels
GalisonThe 80 labels in Galison's Woodland trifold book of labels are decorative and prevent gift mixups!
Cooper Hewitt Pen Set
GalisonThe Cooper Hewitt Pen Set from Galison combines design patterns from the impressive archives of the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum with quality writing tools to create a visually stunning addition to any home office.
Image and Logic: A Material Culture of Microphysics
Peter GalisonThis study engages with the impact of modern technology on experimental physicists.
Picturing Science, Producing Art
Peter GalisonFirst Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Big Science: The Growth of Large-scale Research
Peter GalisonThis book is the first effort to examine the changing nature of research in the physical sciences since World War II - from individuals or small groups to the gigantic team efforts of hundreds of scientists.
The Disunity of Science: Boundaries, Contexts, and Power
Peter Louis GalisonMany of these varied aspects of the debate over the disunity of science are reflected in this volume, which brings together a number of scholars studying science who otherwise have had little to say to each other: feminist theorists, ...
Exposing Electronics
PreviewFor other work on Silicon Valley, see Robert Kargon, Stuart W. Leslie, and Erica Schoenberger, 'Far Beyond Big Science: Science Regions and the Organization of Research and Development,' in Peter Galison and Bruce Hevly (eds), Big ...
Einstein's Clocks and Poincare's Maps: Empires of Time
Peter GalisonTraces the true birth of modern twentieth-century science through the groundbreaking work of German theoretical physicist Albert Einstein and Henri Poincarâe, a mathematician responsible for mapping time coordinates across continents.
Forms of Desire: Sexual Orientation and the Social ...
PreviewSexual Orientation and the Social Constructionist Controversy Edward Stein ... 42 I am indebtedto Stanley Cavell, Lorraine Daston, Peter Galison, Ian Hacking, Erin Kelly, John McNees, and Joel Snyder for conversations on the topics of this ...
Contemporary Archaeology in Theory: The New Pragmatism
PreviewGaffney, Christopher F., and Vincent L. Gaffney, 1987b Introduction. In Pragmatic Archaeology: Theory in Crisis? Christopher F. Gaffney and Vincent L. Gaffney, eds. Pp. 1–8. Oxford: British Archaeological Reports 167. Galison, Peter L., 1997 ...
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