Is science unified or disunified? Over the last century, the question has raised the interest (and
hackles) of scientists, philosophers, historians, and sociologists of science, for at stake is …

Objectivity has a history, and it is full of surprises. In Objectivity, Lorraine Daston and Peter
Galison chart the emergence of objectivity in the mid-nineteenth-century sciences—and show …

One of the most interesting and important trends in the history and philosophy of science
has been the recent work on experiment. Most philosophy of science, and sometimes even …

But the creator of the cloud chamber, Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (1869-1959), ³ cannot
possibly be considered a particle physicist. From 1. Thomson (1937), p. 420. 2. Biography …

This quirky joke compactly deflates the gap between the realistic and distorted; suddenly both
the photograph and the painting stand as different representations. In a certain way, Image …

At first sight, nothing could be simpler than nuclear emulsions, those thin strips of film designed
to trap the tracks of passing charged entities—nuclei, protons, electrons and the other …

THE THREE ESSAYS THAT FOLLOW discuss the role of analogy and its parent faculty, the
imagination, in the writings of three prominent spokesmen for the new science of the early …

D. GRAHAM BURNETT: Peter, in 1997 you gave a plenary session lecture at the History of
Science Society meeting in La Jolla entitled" Relentless Historicism: Machines and …

Part I. History of Science. This thesis addresses the question: How does evidence from a
physical experiment become persuasive to those performing the experiment? Two methods are …

The assumptions involved in the use of Boltzmann's law to describe the electron density
variations in ion acoustic waves are discussed. The need for electron collisions to fill the regions …