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<br>Spontaneous Generations: A Journal for the History and Philosophy of
Science Vol 4, No 1 (2010): Scientific Instruments: Knowledge,
Practice, and Culture<br>
Table of Contents <a href="http://spontaneousgenerations.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/SpontaneousGenerations/issue/view/1073" style="color: rgb(20, 125, 186);" target="_blank">http://spontaneousgenerations.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/SpontaneousGenerations/issue/view/1073</a><br>
<br>Focused Discussion<br>--------<br>Scientific Instruments: Knowledge, Practice, and Culture [Editor’s Introduction] (1-7)<br> Isaac Record<br><br>The
Challenge of Authenticating Scientific Objects in Museum Collections:
Exposing the Forgery of a Moroccan Astrolabe Allegedly Dated 1845 CE
(8-20)<br>
Ingrid Hehmeyer<br><br>People as Scientific Instruments (21-29)<br> Maarten Derksen<br><br>Equipment for an Experiment (30-38)<br> Rom Harré<br><br>An Instrument for What? Digital Computers, Simulation and Scientific Practice (39-44)<br>
Wendy S. Parker<br><br>Great Pyramid Metrology and the Material Politics of Basalt (45-60)<br> Michael J. Barany<br><br>Let Freeness Ring: The Canadian Standard Freeness Tester as Hegemonic Engine (61-70)<br>
James Hull<br><br>The Machine Speaks Falsely (71-84)<br> Allan Franklin<br><br>Reading Measuring Instruments (85-93)<br> Mario Bunge<br><br>Engineering Realities (94-110)<br> Davis Baird<br><br>Conceptual Sea Changes (111-115)<br>
Paul Humphreys<br><br>Extended Thing Knowledge (116-128)<br> Mathieu Charbonneau<br><br>Otto in the Chinese Room (129-137)<br> Philip Murray McCullough<br><br>Humans not Instruments (138-147)<br> Harry Collins<br>
<br>Apparatus and Experimentation Revisited (148-154)<br> Trevor H. Levere<br><br>Material Culture and the Dobsonian Telescope (155-162)<br> Jessica Ellen Sewell, Andrew Johnston<br><br>Taming the “Publication Machine”: Generating Unity, Engaging the Trading Zones (163-172)<br>
François Thoreau, Maria Neicu<br><br>Concepts as Tools in the Experimental Generation of Knowledge in Cognitive Neuropsychology (173-190)<br> Uljana Feest<br><br>Articles<br>--------<br>Domesticating the Planets: Instruments and Practices in the Development of Planetary Geology (191-230)<br>
Matthew Benjamin Shindell<br><br>“Old” Technology in New Hands: Instruments as Mediators of Interdisciplinary Learning in Microfluidics (231-254)<br> Dorothy Sutherland Olsen<br><br><br>Opinions<br>--------<br>
Out the Door: A Short History of the University of Toronto Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments (255-261)<br> Erich Weidenhammer, Michael Da Silva<br><br><br>Reviews<br>--------<br>Ian Hesketh. Of Apes and Ancestors: Evolution, Christianity, and the Oxford Debate (262-265)<br>
Sebastian Assenza<br><br>Marc Lange. Laws and Lawmakers: Science, Metaphysics, and the Laws of Nature (266-269)<br> Christopher Belanger<br><br>William Sims Bainbridge. The Warcraft Civilization: Social Science in a Virtual World (270-272)<br>
Bruce J. Petrie<br><br>Steven Shapin. The Scientific Life: A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation (273-275)<br> Michael Cournoyea<br><br>Learning
From Artifacts: A Review of the “Reading Artifacts: Summer Institute in
the Material Culture of Science,” Presented by The Canada<br>
Science and Technology Museum and Situating Science Cluster (276-279)<br> Jaipreet Virdi<br><br>Aaron A. Cohen-Gadol and Dennis D. Spencer. The Legacy of Harvey Cushing: Profiles of Patient Care (280-282)<br> Delia Gavrus<br>
<br>Adrian Parr. Hijacking Sustainability (283-285)<br> R. Moore<br><br>Eileen
Crist and H. Bruce Rinker, eds. Gaia in Turmoil: Climate Change,
Biodepletion and Earth Ethics in an Age of Crisis (286-288)<br> Julia Agapitos<br>
<br>David Pantalony. Altered Sensations: Rudolph Koenig’s Acoustical Workshop in Nineteenth-Century Paris (289-291)<br> Sarah-Jane Patterson<br><br>Michael Strevens. Depth: An Account of Scientific Explanation (292-299)<br>
Anthony Kulic<br><br><br>_____________________________________________________<br>Spontaneous Generations<br><a href="http://spontaneousgenerations.library.utoronto.ca/" style="color: rgb(20, 125, 186);" target="_blank">http://spontaneousgenerations.library.utoronto.ca/</a><br>
Isaac Record, Editor<br><font color="#888888"><a href="mailto:isaac.record@utoronto.ca" style="color: rgb(20, 125, 186);" target="_blank">isaac.record@utoronto.ca</a><br><br>Please distribute widely. Apologies for cross-postings.<br>
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