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230Science, History and Culture: Evolving PerspectivesIn Beginner's Guide to the History of Science, Simon & Schuster/oneworld (oxford). pp. 182-201. 2009.This chapter explores how science and technology studies (STS) have evolved over the past generation. It surveys the contrasting perspectives of philosophers, sociologists, scholars of the humanities, wider publics, and scientists themselves. It describes contrasting views about the practice and purpose for studying the history of science. ISBN 978-1-85168-681-0
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228Militarizing radiometryInstitute of Physics Press. 2001.The measurement of light and colour has always been a peripheral science. Light became a 'disciplined' quantity over the period of a century, but the specialist communities that measured it did not. The quantification of visible light (photometry), colour (colorimetry), and radiant intensity (radiometry) involved distinct communities of physicists, psychologists, technicians and engineers. This chapter of _Science in the Shadows_ examines how the measurement of non-visible light became the doma…Read more
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227Klaus Hentschel, Mapping the Spectrum: Techniques of Visual Representation in Research and Teaching. Oxford: Oxford university press, 2002. Pp. XIII+562. Isbn 0-19-850953-7. £75.00 (review)British Journal for the History of Science 36 (1): 87-127. 2003.
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223The physical tourist: A Glasgow heritage tourPhysics in Perspective 8 451-465. 2006.History of physics via Glasgow sites.
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217Anne Marcovich and Terry Shinn, Toward a New Dimension: Exploring the Nanoscale (review)Minerva 53 (4): 431-434. 2015.
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214Identity through alliances: the British chemical engineerIn I. Hellberg, M. Saks & C. Benoit (eds.), Professional Identities in Transition: Cross-Cultural Dimensions, Almqvist & Wiksell International. pp. 391-408. 1999.The development of a professional identity is particularly interesting for those occupations that have a troubled emergence. The hinterland between science and technology accommodates many such ‘in-between’ subjects, which appear to have distinct attributes. Some of these specialisms disappear in the face of culturally stronger occupations. Others endure, their technical expertise becoming appropriated or mutated to serve the needs of different professional groups. This chapter is concerned with…Read more
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206Peter Galison, Image and Logic: A Material Culture of Microphysics (review)Science and Public Policy 26 75-76. 1999.
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186John Cantrell and Gillian Cookson , Henry Maudslay and the Pioneers of the Machine Age. Stroud and Charleston: Tempus, 2002. Pp. 192. Isbn 0-7524-2766-0. £16.99, $26.99 (review)British Journal for the History of Science 38 (4): 483-484. 2005.
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180J. Hurley, Organisation and Scientific Discovery (review)Science and Public Policy 25 66-67. 1998.
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180Science Studies in a Liberal Arts curriculumIn Carol Hill & Sean F. Johnston (eds.), _Below the Belt: The Founding of a Higher Education Institution_, University of Glasgow Crichton Publications. pp. 73-86. 2005.On the differing practices and assumptions in the academic specialisms of environmental studies and STS.
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177Antony Kamm and Malcolm Baird, John Logie Baird: A life. Edinburgh: National museums of Scotland publishing, 2002. Pp. XII+465. Isbn 1-901663-76-0. 25.00 (review)British Journal for the History of Science 37 (2): 221-222. 2004.
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177From eye to machine: Shifting authority in color measurementIn B. Saunders & J. Van Brakel (eds.), Theories, Technologies, Instrumentalities of Color: Anthropological and Historiographic Perspectives, University Press of America. pp. 289-306. 2002.Given a subject so imbued with contention and conflicting theoretical stances, it is remarkable that automated instruments ever came to replace the human eye as sensitive arbiters of color specification. Yet, dramatic shifts in assumptions and practice did occur in the first half of the twentieth century. How and why was confidence transferred from careful observers to mechanized devices when the property being measured – color – had become so closely identified with human physiology and psychol…Read more
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176C. C. M. Mody, Instrumental Community: Probe Microscopy and the Path to Nanotechnology (review)Technology and Culture 54 221-223. 2013.
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175Studying marginalised physical sciences‘Writing the History’ of the Physical Sciences After 1945: State of the Art, Questions, and Perspectives, Strasbourg, 8-9 June 2007. 2007.The second half of the twentieth century offers distinct perspectives for the historian of science. The role of the State, the expansion of certain industries and the cultural engagement with science were all transformed. The foregrounding of certain strands of physical science in the public and administrative consciousness – nuclear physics and planetary science, for example – had a complement: the ‘backgrounding’ or institutional neglect of a number of other fields. My work in the history of t…Read more
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170Below the Belt: The Founding of a Higher Education Institution (edited book)University of Glasgow Crichton Publications. 2005.On the formation of the School of Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Glasgow. When the University of Glasgow’s new 'Crichton College' opened its doors in September 1999, its small staff had that rare opportunity in an academic’s career to launch a new curriculum based on clearly enunciated ideals. In the following six years under the direction of Professor Rex C. Taylor, those ideals remained firm even as numbers grew and external circumstances mutated. The theme of this book concern…Read more
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168Bruce J. Hunt, Pursuing Power and Light: Technology and Physics from James Watt to Albert Einstein (review)Technology and Culture 52 403-404. 2011.
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165Maggie Mort, Building the Trident Network: A Study of the Enrollment of People, Knowledge, and Machines. Inside Technology. Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 2002. Pp. X+217. Isbn 0-262-13397-0. £22.50 (review)British Journal for the History of Science 37 (4): 485-486. 2004.
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165Informing, teaching or propagandising? Combining Environmental and Science Studies for undergraduatesDiscourse: Learning and Teaching in Philosophical and Religious Studies 1 (2): 130-140. 2002.This article discusses experiences in the integrated teaching of Environmental Studies and Science Studies in a generalist curriculum at a university campus in Scotland. At the University of Glasgow Crichton Campus, a mixed curriculum has been developed to combine coherently Environmental and Science Studies, perhaps the first such curriculum in the UK and equally uncommon in America. The Crichton curricum is intentionally multi-disciplinary, drawing closely on the successful nineteenth-century …Read more
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165Crosbie Smith, The Science of Energy: The Cultural History of Energy Physics in Victorian Britain (review)Science and Public Policy 27 45-46. 2000.
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163William Bynum, A Little History of Science (review)British Society for the History of Science Viewpoint 101 10. 2013.
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163Thomas P. Hughes, Human-Built World: How to Think about Technology and Culture (review)British Journal for the History of Science 39 (3): 441-442. 2006.
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157Klaus Hentschel, Physics and National Socialism (review)Science and Public Policy 24 63-64. 1997.
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155Michael M. Woolfson, Materials, Matter and Particles: A Brief History (review)Ambix 58 182-183. 2011.
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150Russell Burns, John Logie Baird, Television Pioneer. History of technology series, 28. London: Institution of electrical engineers, 2000. Pp. XXV+417. ISBN 0-85296-797-7. (review)British Journal for the History of Science 35 (2): 213-250. 2002.
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149Stathis Arapostathis and Graeme Gooday, Patently Contestable: Electrical Technologies and Inventor Identities on Trial in Britain (review)Technology and Culture 56 276-277. 2015.
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147Timothy Lenoir, Instituting Science: The Cultural Production of Scientific Disciplines (review)Science and Public Policy 25. 1998.
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147R. Cunningham (ed.), Interdisciplinarity and the Organisation of Knowledge in Europe (review)Science and Public Policy 27 303-304. 2000.
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146Steven J. Dick, Sky and Ocean Joined: The U.S. Naval Observatory 1830–2000. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xiii+609. ISBN 0-521-81599-1. £90.00, $130.00 (review)British Journal for the History of Science 38 (2): 236-237. 2005.
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145David Knight, Travelling in Strange Seas: The Great Revolution in Science (review)Ambix 62 293-294. 2015.
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