Vol 4, No 1 (2010)

Scientific Instruments: Knowledge, Practice, and Culture

Table of Contents

Focused Discussion

Scientific Instruments: Knowledge, Practice, and Culture [Editor’s Introduction] PDF
Isaac Record 1-7
The Challenge of Authenticating Scientific Objects in Museum Collections: Exposing the Forgery of a Moroccan Astrolabe Allegedly Dated 1845 CE PDF
Ingrid Hehmeyer 8-20
People as Scientific Instruments PDF
Maarten Derksen 21-29
Equipment for an Experiment PDF
Rom Harré 30-38
An Instrument for What? Digital Computers, Simulation and Scientific Practice PDF
Wendy S. Parker 39-44
Great Pyramid Metrology and the Material Politics of Basalt PDF
Michael J. Barany 45-60
Let Freeness Ring: The Canadian Standard Freeness Tester as Hegemonic Engine PDF
James Hull 61-70
The Machine Speaks Falsely PDF
Allan Franklin 71-84
Reading Measuring Instruments PDF
Mario Bunge 85-93
Engineering Realities PDF
Davis Baird 94-110
Conceptual Sea Changes PDF
Paul Humphreys 111-115
Extended Thing Knowledge PDF
Mathieu Charbonneau 116-128
Otto in the Chinese Room PDF
Philip Murray McCullough 129-137
Humans not Instruments PDF
Harry Collins 138-147
Apparatus and Experimentation Revisited PDF
Trevor H. Levere 148-154
Material Culture and the Dobsonian Telescope PDF
Jessica Ellen Sewell, Andrew Johnston 155-162
Taming the “Publication Machine”: Generating Unity, Engaging the Trading Zones PDF
François Thoreau, Maria Neicu 163-172
Concepts as Tools in the Experimental Generation of Knowledge in Cognitive Neuropsychology PDF
Uljana Feest 173-190
Let Freeness Ring: The Canadian Standard Freeness Tester as Hegemonic Engine PDF
James Hull 61-70

Articles

Domesticating the Planets: Instruments and Practices in the Development of Planetary Geology PDF
Matthew Benjamin Shindell 191-230
“Old” Technology in New Hands: Instruments as Mediators of Interdisciplinary Learning in Microfluidics PDF
Dorothy Sutherland Olsen 231-254

Opinions

Out the Door: A Short History of the University of Toronto Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments PDF
Erich Weidenhammer, Michael Da Silva 255-261

Reviews

Ian Hesketh. Of Apes and Ancestors: Evolution, Christianity, and the Oxford Debate PDF
Sebastian Assenza 262-265
Marc Lange. Laws and Lawmakers: Science, Metaphysics, and the Laws of Nature PDF
Christopher Belanger 266-269
William Sims Bainbridge. The Warcraft Civilization: Social Science in a Virtual World PDF
Bruce J. Petrie 270-272
Steven Shapin. The Scientific Life: A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation PDF
Michael Cournoyea 273-275
Learning From Artifacts: A Review of the “Reading Artifacts: Summer Institute in the Material Culture of Science,” Presented by The Canada Science and Technology Museum and Situating Science Cluster PDF
Jaipreet Virdi 276-279
Aaron A. Cohen-Gadol and Dennis D. Spencer. The Legacy of Harvey Cushing: Profiles of Patient Care PDF
Delia Gavrus 280-282
Adrian Parr. Hijacking Sustainability PDF
R. Moore 283-285
Eileen Crist and H. Bruce Rinker, eds. Gaia in Turmoil: Climate Change, Biodepletion and Earth Ethics in an Age of Crisis PDF
Julia Agapitos 286-288
David Pantalony. Altered Sensations: Rudolph Koenig’s Acoustical Workshop in Nineteenth-Century Paris PDF
Sarah-Jane Patterson 289-291
Michael Strevens. Depth: An Account of Scientific Explanation PDF
Anthony Kulic 292-299


ISSN: 1913-0465