Aesthetics, Industry, and Science: Hermann von Helmholtz and the Berlin Physical Society

By M. Norton Wise

Energy and Empire: A Biographical Study of Lord Kelvin

By M. Norton Wise, Crosbie Smith

The Values of Precision

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The values of precision

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The Values of Precision examines how exactitude has come to occupy such a prominent place in Western culture. What has been the value of numerical values? Beginning with the late eighteenth centur...

Science without Laws

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Growing Explanations: Historical Perspectives On Recent Science

By E. Roy Weintraub, Peter Galison, Amy Dahan-Dalmédico, Barbara Herrnstein Smith, M. Norton Wise, M. Norton Wise, Barbara Herrnstein Smith, E. Roy Weintraub, Peter Galison, Amy Dahan Dalmedico

For much of the twentieth century scientists sought to explain objects and processes by reducing them to their components—nuclei into protons and neutrons, proteins into amino acids, and so on—but...

Aesthetics Industry Science

By M. Norton Wise

Energy and Empire Set

By M. Norton Wise, Crosbie Smith

The Values of Precision

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Growing Explanations

By Barbara Herrnstein Smith, M. Norton Wise, Peter Galison, Amy Dahan Dalmedico, E. Roy Weintraub