Instruments Of Knowledge

Author : Davis Baird
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2004-02-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780520928206

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Thing Knowledge by Davis Baird Pdf

Western philosophers have traditionally concentrated on theory as the means for expressing knowledge about a variety of phenomena. This absorbing book challenges this fundamental notion by showing how objects themselves, specifically scientific instruments, can express knowledge. As he considers numerous intriguing examples, Davis Baird gives us the tools to "read" the material products of science and technology and to understand their place in culture. Making a provocative and original challenge to our conception of knowledge itself, Thing Knowledge demands that we take a new look at theories of science and technology, knowledge, progress, and change. Baird considers a wide range of instruments, including Faraday's first electric motor, eighteenth-century mechanical models of the solar system, the cyclotron, various instruments developed by analytical chemists between 1930 and 1960, spectrometers, and more.

Author : Jean-François Gauvin
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789004504615

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Instruments of Knowledge by Jean-François Gauvin Pdf

In a bid to claim ‘scientific objects’ as requiring a significant amount of conceptual labor, this book looks sequentially at instruments, habits, and museums. The goal is to uncover how, together, these material and immaterial activities, rules, and commitments form one meaningful and credible blueprint revealing the building blocks of knowledge production. They serve to conceptualize and examine the entire life of an instrument: from its ideation and craft to its use, reuse, circulation, recycling, and (if not obliterated) its final entry into a museum. It is such an epistemological triptych that guides this investigation.

Author : Cartelli, Antonio
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2006-01-31
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781591409557

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Teaching in the Knowledge Society: New Skills and Instruments for Teachers by Cartelli, Antonio Pdf

"This book investigates changes induced by information and communications technology in today's education system"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Sachiko Kusukawa,Ian Maclean
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199288786

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Transmitting Knowledge by Sachiko Kusukawa,Ian Maclean Pdf

The period between the fifteenth and the middle of the seventeenth centuries saw a great many changes and innovations in scientific thinking. These were communicated to various publics in diverse ways; not only through discursive prose and formal notations, but also in the form of instruments and images accompanying texts. The collected essays of this volume examine the modes of transmission of this knowledge in a variety of contexts. The schematic representation of instruments is examined in the case of the 'navicula' (a versatile version of a sundial) and the 'squadro' (a surveying instrument); the new forms of illustration of plants and the human body are investigated through the work of Fuchs and Vesalius; theories of optics and of matter are discussed in relation to the illustrations which accompany the texts of Ausonio and Descartes. The different diagrammatic strategies adopted to explain the complex medical theory of the latitude of health are charted through the work of medieval and sixteenth-century physicians; Kepler's use of illustration in his handbook of cosmology is placed in the context of book production and Copernican propaganda. The conception of astronomical instruments as either calculating devices or as cosmological models is examined in the case of Tycho Brahe and others. A study is devoted to the multiple functions of frontispieces and to the various readerships for which they were conceived. The papers in the volume are all based on new research, and they constitute together a coherent and convergent set of case studies which demonstrate the vitality and inventiveness of early modern natural philosophers, and their awareness of the media available to them for transmitting knowledge.

Author : Daniel Rothbart
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2024-02-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780252056246

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Philosophical Instruments by Daniel Rothbart Pdf

The surprising roles of instruments and experimentation in acquiring knowledge In Philosophical Instruments Daniel Rothbart argues that our tools are not just neutral intermediaries between humans and the natural world, but are devices that demand new ideas about reality. Just as a hunter's new spear can change their knowledge of the environment, so can the development of modern scientific equipment alter our view of the world. Working at the intersections of science, technology, and philosophy, Rothbart examines the revolution in knowledge brought on by recent advances in scientific instruments. Full of examples from historical and contemporary science, including electron scanning microscopes, sixteenth-century philosophical instruments, and diffraction devices used by biochemical researchers, Rothbart explores the ways in which instrumentation advances a philosophical stance about an instrument's power, an experimenter's skills, and a specimen's properties. Through a close reading of engineering of instruments, he introduces a philosophy from (rather than of) design, contending that philosophical ideas are channeled from design plans to models and from model into the use of the devices.

Author : Stephen LEGUIN
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1790
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0021806654

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Description and use of the new invented instruments for facilitating the knowledge of the longitude at Sea, etc by Stephen LEGUIN Pdf

Author : Jonathan Bostic,Erin Krupa,Jeffrey Shih
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780429942242

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Quantitative Measures of Mathematical Knowledge by Jonathan Bostic,Erin Krupa,Jeffrey Shih Pdf

The aim of this book is to explore measures of mathematics knowledge, spanning K-16 grade levels. By focusing solely on mathematics content, such as knowledge of mathematical practices, knowledge of ratio and proportions, and knowledge of abstract algebra, this volume offers detailed discussions of specific instruments and tools meant for measuring student learning. Written for assessment scholars and students both in mathematics education and across educational contexts, this book presents innovative research and perspectives on quantitative measures, including their associated purpose statements and validity arguments.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789004412842

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Scientific Instruments between East and West by Anonim Pdf

Scientific Instruments between East and West is a collection of essays on the transmission of knowledge about scientific instruments and the trade in such instruments between the Eastern and Western worlds.

Author : Charles T. Wolfe,Ofer Gal
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2010-04-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789048136865

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The Body as Object and Instrument of Knowledge by Charles T. Wolfe,Ofer Gal Pdf

It was in 1660s England, according to the received view, in the Royal Society of London, that science acquired the form of empirical enquiry we recognize as our own: an open, collaborative experimental practice, mediated by specially-designed instruments, supported by civil discourse, stressing accuracy and replicability. Guided by the philosophy of Francis Bacon, by Protestant ideas of this worldly benevolence, by gentlemanly codes of decorum and by a dominant interest in mechanics and the mechanical structure of the universe, the members of the Royal Society created a novel experimental practice that superseded former modes of empirical inquiry, from Aristotelian observations to alchemical experimentation. This volume focuses on the development of empiricism as an interest in the body – as both the object of research and the subject of experience. Re-embodying empiricism shifts the focus of interest to the ‘life sciences’; medicine, physiology, natural history. In fact, many of the active members of the Royal Society were physicians, and a significant number of those, disciples of William Harvey and through him, inheritors of the empirical anatomy practices developed in Padua during the 16th century. Indeed, the primary research interests of the early Royal Society were concentrated on the body, human and animal, and its functions much more than on mechanics. Similarly, the Académie des Sciences directly contradicted its self-imposed mandate to investigate Nature in mechanistic fashion, devoting a significant portion of its Mémoires to questions concerning life, reproduction and monsters, consulting empirical botanists, apothecaries and chemists, and keeping closer to experience than to the Cartesian standards of well-founded knowledge. These highlighted empirical studies of the body, were central in a workshop in the beginning of 2009 organized by the unit for History and Philosophy of Science in Sydney. The papers that were presented by some of the leading figures in this area are presented in this volume.

Author : Prénom Nom Auteur principal,Prénom Nom Co-auteur
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9791094642351

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Wooden Musical Instruments Different Forms of Knowledge by Prénom Nom Auteur principal,Prénom Nom Co-auteur Pdf

Author : Steve Moutrey
Publisher : tfm Publishing Limited
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781910079560

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The Fundamentals of SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS by Steve Moutrey Pdf

Author : J. Q. Davies,Ellen Lockhart
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226402079

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Sound Knowledge by J. Q. Davies,Ellen Lockhart Pdf

What does it mean to hear scientifically? What does it mean to see musically? This volume uncovers a new side to the long nineteenth century in London, a hidden history in which virtuosic musical entertainment and scientific discovery intersected in remarkable ways. Sound Knowledge examines how scientific truth was accrued by means of visual and aural experience, and, in turn, how musical knowledge was located in relation to empirical scientific practice. James Q. Davies and Ellen Lockhart gather work by leading scholars to explore a crucial sixty-year period, beginning with Charles Burney’s ambitious General History of Music, a four-volume study of music around the globe, and extending to the Great Exhibition of 1851, where musical instruments were assembled alongside the technologies of science and industry in the immense glass-encased collections of the Crystal Palace. Importantly, as the contributions show, both the power of science and the power of music relied on performance, spectacle, and experiment. Ultimately, this volume sets the stage for a new picture of modern disciplinarity, shining light on an era before the division of aural and visual knowledge.

Author : George Henry Lewes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Knowledge, Theory of
ISBN : UCR:31210002488763

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The method of science and its application to metaphysics. The rules of philosophising. Psychological principles. The limitations of knowledge by George Henry Lewes Pdf

Author : Steven A. Walton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Science
ISBN : UOM:39015060850719

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Instrumental in War by Steven A. Walton Pdf

Research and instrumentation in warfare since 1500 demonstrates the rise of the scientific military, the complicated interaction with military institutions, and details of how scientists and engineers developed artillery and explosives, surveying and geophysics, pilot testing and siegework, and the role of national and university laboratories.

Author : J. Henno,Y. Kiyoki,T. Tokuda
Publisher : IOS Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-18
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781607509929

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Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases XXIII by J. Henno,Y. Kiyoki,T. Tokuda Pdf

Information modelling and knowledge bases have become hot topics, not only in academic communities concerned with information systems and computer science, but also wherever information technology is applied in the world of business. This book presents the proceedings of the 21st European-Japanese Conference on Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases (EJC 2011), held in Tallinn, Estonia, in June 2011. The EJC conferences provide a worldwide forum for researchers and practitioners in the field to exchange results and experiences achieved in computer science and related disciplines such as conceptual analysis, design and specification of information systems, multimedia information modelling, multimedia systems, software engineering, knowledge and process management, cross cultural communication and context modelling. Attention is also paid to theoretical disciplines including cognitive science, artificial intelligence, logic, linguistics and analytical philosophy. The selected papers (16 full papers, 9 short papers, 2 papers based on panel sessions and 2 on invited presentations), cover a wide range of topics, including database semantics, knowledge representation, software engineering, www information management, context-based information retrieval, ontology, image databases, temporal and spatial databases, document data management, process management, cultural modelling and many others. Covering many aspects of system modelling and optimization, this book will be of interest to all those working in the field of information modelling and knowledge bases.