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"I want to get at the blown glass of the early cloud chambers and the oozing noodles of wet nuclear emulsion; to the resounding crack of a high-voltage spark arcing across a high-tension chamber and leaving the lab stinking of ozone; to the silent, darkened room, with row after row of scanners sliding trackballs across projected bubble-chamber images. Pictures and pulses—I want to know where they came from, how pictures and counts got to be the bottom-line data of physics." (from the preface)
Image and Logic is the most detailed engagement to date with the impact of modern technology on what it means to "do" physics and to be a physicist. At the beginning of this century, physics was usually done by a lone researcher who put together experimental apparatus on a benchtop. Now experiments frequently are larger than a city block, and experimental physicists live very different lives: programming computers, working with industry, coordinating vast teams of scientists and engineers, and playing politics.
Peter L. Galison probes the material culture of experimental microphysics to reveal how the ever-increasing scale and complexity of apparatus have distanced physicists from the very science that drew them into experimenting, and have fragmented microphysics into different technical traditions much as apparatus have fragmented atoms to get at the fundamental building blocks of matter. At the same time, the necessity for teamwork in operating multimillion-dollar machines has created dynamic "trading zones," where instrument makers, theorists, and experimentalists meet, share knowledge, and coordinate the extraordinarily diverse pieces of the culture of modern microphysics: work, machines, evidence, and argument.
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Peter Galison is Mallinckrodt Professor of the History of Science and of Physics at Harvard University. He is author of How Experiments End, published by the University of Chicago Press, and coeditor of The Disunity of Science: Contexts, Boundaries, and Power.
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- PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0226279162
- ISBN 13 9780226279169
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages982
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Paperback. Condition: Fine. xxv, 955 pages: illustrations, maps; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (pages 849-902) and index. Inscribed by Galison to Nobel laureate Dr. Donald A. Glaser, inventor of the bubble chamber. With TLS from Halison to Glaser laid in. Search keyword DGLSR for more collectible titles from the Glaser collection. Contents: 1. Introduction: Image and Logic -- 2. Cloud Chambers: The Peculiar Genius of British Physics -- 3. Nuclear Emulsions: The Anxiety of the Experimenter -- 4. Laboratory War: Radar Philosophy and the Los Alamos Man -- 5. Bubble Chambers: Factories of Physics -- 6. The Electronic Image: Iconoclasm and the New Icons -- 7. Time Projection Chambers: An Image Falling through Space -- 8. Monte Carlo Simulations: Artificial Reality -- 9. The Trading Zone: Coordinating Action and Belief -- Abbreviations for Archival Sources. Microphysics -- History -- 20th century. Physics -- Experiments -- History -- 20th century. Physical instruments -- History -- 20th century. Microphysique -- Histoire -- 20e si?cle. Physique -- Exp?riences -- Histoire -- 20e si?cle. Physique -- Instruments -- Histoire -- 20e si?cle. Microphysics. Physical instruments. Physics -- Experiments. Natuurkunde. Wetenschappelijke technieken. Detectoren. Instrumenten. Physique -- Exp?riences -- 20e si?cle. Physique -- Instruments -- 20e si?cle. Microphysique -- 20e si?cle. Fine with traces of spine label to spine foot. Seller Inventory # 85944
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