Reworking the Bench Research Notebooks in the History of Science /

Research records composed of notes and protocols have long played a role in the efforts to understand the origins of what have come to be seen as the established milestones in the development of modern science. The use of research records to probe the nature of scientific investigation itself howeve...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Holmes, Frederic L. (Editor), Renn, J©ơrgen. (Editor), Rheinberger, Hans-J©œrg. (Editor)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2003.
Series:Archimedes, New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, 7
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Table of Contents:
  • The Hanging Chain: A Forgotten ỚSDiscoveryỚ<U+00fd> Buried in GalileoỚ"s Notes on Mition
  • The Chymical Laboratory Notebooks of George Starkey
  • NewtonỚ"s Optical Notebooks: Public Versus Private Data
  • At Play with Nature: Luigi GalvaniỚ"s Experimental Approach to Muscular Physiology
  • The Practice of Studying Practice: Analyzing Research Records of Amp©·re and Faraday
  • From Agents to Cells: Theodor SchwannỚ"s Research Notes of the Years 1835Ớ<U+001c>1838
  • Narrating by Numbers: Keeping an Account of Early 19th Century Laboratory Experiences
  • Exploring Contents and Boundaries of Experimental Practice in Laboratory Notebooks: Samuel Pierpont Langley and the Mapping of the Infra-Red Region of the Solar Spectrum
  • The Pocket Schedule
  • From Lone Investigator to Laboratory Chief: Ivan PavlovỚ"s Research Notebooks as a Reflection of His Managerial and Interpretive Style
  • Carl CorrensỚ" Experiments with Pisum, 1896Ớ<U+001c>1899
  • Errors and Insights: Reconstructing the Genesis of General Relativity from EinsteinỚ"s Zurich Notebook
  • Hans KrebsỚ" and Kurt HenseleitỚ"s Laboratory Notebooks and Their Discovery of the Urea Cycle-Reconstructed with Computer Models
  • Laboratory Notebooks and Investigative Pathways
  • The ScholarỚ"s Seeing Eye.