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Heraclitus Redux: Technological Infrastructures and Scientific Change

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Heraclitus Redux: Technological Infrastructures and Scientific Change

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Scientific change is often a function of technological innovation – new instruments show us new things we could not see before and we then need new theories to explain them. One of the results of this process is that what counts as scientific evidence changes, and how we do our science changes. Hitherto the technologies which make contemporary science possible have been ignored. This book aims to correct that omission and to spell out the consequences of taking the technologies behind the doing of science seriously.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction / 2. Galileo and the Telescope / 3. The Technological Infrastructure of Science / 4. Scientific Observation / 5. "Seeing" at the nano-level / 6. When Technological Infrastructures fail / 7. Scientific Progress? / 8. Technological Progress? / 9. Scientific Change / 10. Technological Development and the Process of Science / 11. A Heraclitian Philosophy of Technology

Product details

Published Oct 25 2019
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 128
ISBN 9781786612359
Imprint Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Illustrations 5 b/w illustrations;
Dimensions 9 x 6 inches
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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