Image and Logic: A Material Culture of Microphysics

by Peter Galison

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"I want to get at the blown glass of the early cloud chambers and the oozing noodles of wet nuclear emulsion; to the resounding crack of a high-voltage spark arcing across a high-tension chamber and leaving the lab stinking of ozone; to the silent, darkened room, with row after row of scanners sliding trackballs across projected bubble-chamber images. Pictures and pulses--I want to know where they came from, how pictures and counts got to be the bottom-line...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0226279170

ISBN13:9780226279176

Release Date:October 1997

Publisher:University of Chicago Press

Length:982 Pages

Weight:2.85 lbs.

Dimensions:1.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"

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Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Science Science & Math Science & Scientists Science & Technology

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