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The architecture of science / edited by Peter Galison and Emily Thompson

Published
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1999.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xviii, 573 pages : illustrations (some color)
Additional Creators
Galison, Peter, 1955- and Thompson, Emily Ann
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Language Note
English.
Restrictions on Access
Open Access Unrestricted online access
Contents
1. Buildings and the Subject of Science / Peter Galison -- 2. Masculine Prerogatives: Gender, Space, and Knowledge in the Early Modern Museum / Paula Findlen -- 3. Alchemical Symbolism and Concealment: The Chemical House of Libavius / William R. Newman -- 4. Openness and Empiricism: Values and Meaning in Early Architectural Writings and in Seventeenth-Century Experimental Philosophy / Pamela O. Long -- 5. Architectures for Steam / M. Norton Wise -- 6. Illuminating the Opacity of Achromatic Lens Production: Joseph von Fraunhofer's Use of Monastic Architecture and Space as a Laboratory / Myles W. Jackson -- 7. The Spaces of Cultural Representation, circa 1887 and 1969: Reflections on Museum Arrangement and Anthropological Theory in the Boasian and Evolutionary Traditions / George W. Stocking, Jr. -- 8. Bricks and Bones: Architecture and Science in Victorian Britain / Sophie Forgan -- 9. "Spatial Mechanics": Scientific Metaphors in Architecture / Adrian Forty.
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ISBN
0262071908 (hc ; alk. paper)
9780262071901 (hc ; alk. paper)
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Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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