Models: The Third Dimension of Science (Writing Science)

de Chadarevian, Soraya, Hopwood, Nick, Baker, Malcolm, Bouma

ISBN 10: 0804739714 / ISBN 13: 9780804739719

Published by Stanford University Press, 2004

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Bibliographic Details

Title: Models: The Third Dimension of Science (...

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Publication Date: 2004

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Book Type: book

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Synopsis:

This book is about wooden ships and plastic molecules, wax bodies and a perspex economy, monuments in cork and mathematics in plaster, casts of diseases, habitat dioramas and extinct monsters rebuilt in bricks and mortar. Considering such objects together for the first time, this interdisciplinary volume demonstrates how, in research as well as teaching, 3-D models played major roles in making knowledge.

About the Author:

Soraya de Chadarevian is Senior Research Associate in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge. She is the author, most recently, of Designs for Life: Molecular Biology after World War II (2002). Nick Hopwood is Lecturer in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge. His publications include Embryos in Wax: Models from the Ziegler Studio (2002).