scientific texts and the materiality of communication /
edited by Timothy Lenoir.
Stanford, Calif. :
Stanford University Press,
1998.
xv, 457 pages :
illustrations ;
24 cm
Writing science
Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-441) and index.
Inscription practices and materialities of communication / Timothy Lenoir -- The language of strange facts in early modern science / Lorraine Daston -- Shaping information: mathematics, computing, and typography / Robin Rider -- The technology of mathematical persuasion / Brian Rotman -- On the take-off of operators / Friedrich Kittler -- Switchboards and sex: the Nut(t) case / Bernhard Siegert -- Politics on the topographer's table: the Helvetic triangulation of cartography, politics, and representation / David Gugerli -- Writing Darwin's islands: England and the insular condition / Gillian Beer -- Illustration as strategy in Charles Darwin's The expression of the emotions in man and animals / Phillip Prodger -- The Leviathan of Parsonstown: literary technology and scientific representation / Simon Schaffer -- Technology, aesthetics, and the development of astrophotography at the Lick Observatory / Alex Pang -- Standards and semiotics / Robert Brain -- Experimental systems, graphematic spaces / Hans-Jörg Rheinberger -- Emergent power: vitality and theology in artificial life / Richard M. Doyle -- Science and writing: two national narratives of failure / Lisa Bloom -- Perception versus experience: moving pictures and their resistance to interpretation / Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht.
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Metaphors of inscription and writing feature at all levels of discourse in and about science. These papers juxtapose work from historically focused science and literature studies with work inspired by poststructuralist philosophy and semiotics.