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Representation in Scientific Practice

Name: Representation in Scientific Practice
Brand: MIT Press
SKU: 9780262620765
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Contributor(s): Lynch, Michael E. Editor , Woolgar, Steve Editor Format: Paperback

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ISBN	9780262620765
Publisher	MIT Press
Publication date	October 1990
Language	English
MRP	£47.24 GBP
Page count	376
Item weight	111 g

The essays in this book provide an excellent introduction to the means by which scientists convey their ideas. While diverse in their subject matter, the essays are unified in asserting that scientists compose and use particular representations in contextually organized and contextually sensitive ways, and that these representations - particularly visual displays such as graphs, diagrams, photographs, and drawings - depend for their meaning on the complex activities in which they are situated. The topics include sociological orientations to representational practice, representation and the realist-constructivist controversy, the fixation of evidence, time and documents in researcher interaction, selection and mathematization in the visual documentation of objects in the life sciences, the use of illustrations in texts (E.0. Wilson's Sociobiology, a field guide to the birds), representing practice in cognitive science, the iconography of scientific texts, and semiotic analysis of scientific, representation.

Contributors
K. Amann, Ronald Amerine, Françoise Bastide, Jack Bilmes, K. Knorr, Bruno Latour, John Law, Michael Lynch, Greg Meyers, Lucy A. Suchman, Paul Tibbetts, Steve Woolgar, and Steven Yearley.

Representation in Scientific Practice

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Lynch, Michael E. Editor

Woolgar, Steve Editor

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