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<strong>Research</strong>-<strong>Technology</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Cultural</strong> <strong>Change</strong> : <strong>Instrumentation</strong>, Genericity, Transversality<br />
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<strong>Research</strong>-<strong>Technology</strong> <strong>and</strong><br />
<strong>Cultural</strong> <strong>Change</strong> :<br />
<strong>Instrumentation</strong>, Genericity,<br />
Transversality<br />
- Publications - Collection GEMAS -<br />
Date de mise en ligne : vendredi 21 dcembre 2007<br />
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Terry SHINN<br />
Foreword by Paul FORMAN<br />
GEMAS<br />
Oxford, The Bardwell Press, 2007<br />
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<strong>Research</strong>-<strong>Technology</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Cultural</strong> <strong>Change</strong> : <strong>Instrumentation</strong>, Genericity, Transversality<br />
Terry SHINN<br />
foreword by Paul Forman<br />
Oxford, The Bardwell Press, 2007<br />
This book outlines a new perspective on the history <strong>and</strong> sociology of science that places the devices <strong>and</strong> instruments<br />
of scientific measurement, <strong>and</strong> the people who design <strong>and</strong> develop them, at the centre of study. Terry Shinn<br />
identifies a hitherto unexplored domain of scientific development that he calls research-technology, <strong>and</strong><br />
demonstrates its centrality for underst<strong>and</strong>ing scientific change <strong>and</strong> development. Through case studies of<br />
electromagnetism, the German <strong>and</strong> American scientific instrument makers, computer programming <strong>and</strong> simulation,<br />
<strong>and</strong> spectroscopy, Terry Shinn makes a strong argument for the transversality of instrumentation in the face of<br />
scientific specialization <strong>and</strong> fragmentation. He shows how established scientific boundaries are often broken down by<br />
instrumental technologies, <strong>and</strong> how the development of science often proceeds via innovation <strong>and</strong> genericity in<br />
instrument design.<br />
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