Description: Invisible Industrialist : Manufactures and the Production of Scientific Knowledge, Hardcover by Gaudilliere, Jean-Paul (EDT); Lowy, Ilana (EDT); University of Manchester Centre for the History of Science, technology (COR), ISBN 033364753X, ISBN-13 9780333647530, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Industrial methods, and industrially produced instruments, reagents and living organisms are central to research activities today. They play a key role in the homogenization and the diffusion of laboratory practices, thus in their transformation into a stable and unproblematic knowledge about the natural world. This book displays the - frequently invisible - role of industry in the construction of fundamental scientific knowledge through the examination of case studies taken from the history of nineteenth and the twentieth century physics, chemistry and biomedical sciences.
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Book Title: Invisible Industrialist : Manufacture and the Construction of Scientific Knowledge
Number of Pages: Xiii, 379 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan The Limited
Topic: Philosophy & Social Aspects, Industries / General, Social Aspects, Social History, Research & Development, History
Publication Year: 1998
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Technology & Engineering, Science, Business & Economics, History
Item Weight: 23 Oz
Author: Technology and Medicine Staff Centre for the History of Science
Item Length: 8.5 in
Book Series: Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History Ser.
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Hardcover
