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Holography exploded on the scientific world in 1964, but its slow fuse had been burning much longer. Over the next four decades, the echoes of that explosion reached scientists, engineers, artists and popular culture. Emerging from classified military research, holography evolved to represent the power of post-war physics, an aesthetic union of art and science, the countercultural meanderings of holism, a cottage industry for waves of would-be entrepreneurs and a fertile plot device for science fiction.
New working cultures sprang up to mutate holography, redefining its products, reshaping its audiences and reconceiving its applications. The outcomes included ever more sublime holograms and exquisitely sensitive measuring techniques--but also priority disputes, prurience and poisonous business rivalries.
New subjects cross intellectual borders, and so do their explanations. This book draws on the history and philosophy of science and technology, social studies, politics and cultural history to trace the trajectory of holography. The result is an in-depth account of how new science emerges. Based on unprecedented interviews with pioneer holographers and extensive archival research, it reveals how science, technology, art and wider culture are entwined in the modern world.
New working cultures sprang up to mutate holography, redefining its products, reshaping its audiences and reconceiving its applications. The outcomes included ever more sublime holograms and exquisitely sensitive measuring techniques--but also priority disputes, prurience and poisonous business rivalries.
New subjects cross intellectual borders, and so do their explanations. This book draws on the history and philosophy of science and technology, social studies, politics and cultural history to trace the trajectory of holography. The result is an in-depth account of how new science emerges. Based on unprecedented interviews with pioneer holographers and extensive archival research, it reveals how science, technology, art and wider culture are entwined in the modern world.
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Dr Sean F. Johnston
University of Glasgow
School of Interdisciplinary StudiesReader (Assoc Professor) in History of Science and Technology, Chartered Physicist (UK) and Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
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"...Even for readers only peripherally interested in holography, Johnston's book is a valuable methodological model"--Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences
"Johnston's description of the landscape of holography is the most surprising and satisfying dimension of the book."--Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences
"I would recommend this insightful and scholarly work not only to my colleagues, but also to aspiring young scientists and students in the history and cociology of science, plus the general reader who wants to see how one field developed through its early phases."-- Physics World
"This, then, may well be teh ulitmate history of holography."-- Hologrpahy News
"Anyone who wishes to understand where holography comes from and guess where its future lies would do well to start with this book."-- Physicis World
"He explains how holography changed everything it touched, and by extension, also examines how new sciences are born and how they reach maturity, even to the point of redefining their own notions of what constitutes success."--SciTech Book News
"Very interesting indeed."--Myles W. Jackson, Willamette University
"Sean F Johnston achieves a thoroughness in the telling of this history that only a dedicated and professional science historian could deliver. ... .A fascinating and insightful review of almost 60 years of holography."-- Holography News
"Only now, with Sean Johnston's richly sourced, carefully argued, multi-perspectival history, do we have an account that turns holography from a curious failure to a technique, tool, end-product, science, technology, art form and medium that can be understood as an organic part of twentieth-century society and culture."--British Journal for the History of Science
'comprehensive and compelling'--Technology & Culture
"Anyone who wishes to understand where holography comes from and guess where its future lies would do well to start with this book."-- Physicis World
"Sean F Johnston achieves a thoroughness in the telling of this history that only a dedicated and professional science historian could deliver. ... .A fascinating and insightful review of almost 60 years of holography."-- Holography News
"A well thought out book on an interesting and important topic...thorough and well researched."--Bruce Hunt, University of Texas
"Very interesting indeed."--Myles W. Jackson, Willamette University
"He explains how holography changed everything it touched, and by extension, also examines how new sciences are born and how they reach maturity, even to the point of redefining their own notions of what constitutes success."--SciTech Book News
"Sean Johnston has written a timely and much needed book about the history of holography."--Isis
Dr Sean F. Johnston
University of Glasgow
School of Interdisciplinary StudiesReader (Assoc Professor) in History of Science and Technology, Chartered Physicist (UK) and Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
"...Even for readers only peripherally interested in holography, Johnston's book is a valuable methodological model"--Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences
"Johnston's description of the landscape of holography is the most surprising and satisfying dimension of the book."--Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences
"I would recommend this insightful and scholarly work not only to my colleagues, but also to aspiring young scientists and students in the history and cociology of science, plus the general reader who wants to see how one field developed through its early phases."-- Physics World
"This, then, may well be teh ulitmate history of holography."-- Hologrpahy News
"Anyone who wishes to understand where holography comes from and guess where its future lies would do well to start with this book."-- Physicis World
"He explains how holography changed everything it touched, and by extension, also examines how new sciences are born and how they reach maturity, even to the point of redefining their own notions of what constitutes success."--SciTech Book News
"Very interesting indeed."--Myles W. Jackson, Willamette University
"Sean F Johnston achieves a thoroughness in the telling of this history that only a dedicated and professional science historian could deliver. ... .A fascinating and insightful review of almost 60 years of holography."-- Holography News
"Only now, with Sean Johnston's richly sourced, carefully argued, multi-perspectival history, do we have an account that turns holography from a curious failure to a technique, tool, end-product, science, technology, art form and medium that can be understood as an organic part of twentieth-century society and culture."--British Journal for the History of Science
'comprehensive and compelling'--Technology & Culture
"Anyone who wishes to understand where holography comes from and guess where its future lies would do well to start with this book."-- Physicis World
"Sean F Johnston achieves a thoroughness in the telling of this history that only a dedicated and professional science historian could deliver. ... .A fascinating and insightful review of almost 60 years of holography."-- Holography News
"A well thought out book on an interesting and important topic...thorough and well researched."--Bruce Hunt, University of Texas
"Very interesting indeed."--Myles W. Jackson, Willamette University
"He explains how holography changed everything it touched, and by extension, also examines how new sciences are born and how they reach maturity, even to the point of redefining their own notions of what constitutes success."--SciTech Book News
"Sean Johnston has written a timely and much needed book about the history of holography."--Isis
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- Publication date2006
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