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