The architecture of science

by Galison, Peter Thompson, Emily Ann

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Title Statements

Full title :The architecture of science / edited by Peter Galison and Emily Thompson.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©1999.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):MIT Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge, Mass
Language:eng
Publication Date:©1999.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xviii, 573 pages : : illustrations (some color)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0262071908, 9780262071901
oclc:ocn747981809
LC Classification:NA2543.S35
Dewey Decimal:720

1. Buildings and the Subject of Science / Peter Galison -- 2. Masculine Prerogatives: Gender, Space, and Knowledge in the Early Modern Museum / Paula Findlen -- 3. Alchemical Symbolism and Concealment: The Chemical House of Libavius / William R. Newman -- 4. Openness and Empiricism: Values and Meaning in Early Architectural Writings and in Seventeenth-Century Experimental Philosophy / Pamela O. Long -- 5. Architectures for Steam / M. Norton Wise -- 6. Illuminating the Opacity of Achromatic Lens Production: Joseph von Fraunhofer's Use of Monastic Architecture and Space as a Laboratory / Myles W. Jackson -- 7. The Spaces of Cultural Representation, circa 1887 and 1969: Reflections on Museum Arrangement and Anthropological Theory in the Boasian and Evolutionary Traditions / George W. Stocking, Jr. -- 8. Bricks and Bones: Architecture and Science in Victorian Britain / Sophie Forgan -- 9. "Spatial Mechanics": Scientific Metaphors in Architecture / Adrian Forty.

Subjects

Architecture Architecture and science Architecture and technology Architecture as Topic Architecture et sciences Architecture et technologie Architectuurtheorieën Art, Architecture & Applied Arts Bouwkunst Laboratoires Laboratories Muséologie Science Sciences sciences (philosophy) Technologie wetenschap