Name: Models: The Third Dimension of Science (Writing Science)
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Author: Soraya De Chadarevian; Nick Hopwood; Malcolm Baker; Marcel Boumans; Christopher Evans; Eric Francoeur; James Griesemer; Ludmilla Jordanova; Renato G. Mazzolini; Herbert Mehrtens
ISBN: 9780804739719

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Physical Book

Publisher

Stanford University Press

Author

Soraya De Chadarevian; Nick Hopwood; Malcolm Baker; Marcel Boumans; Christopher Evans; Eric Francoeur; James Griesemer; Ludmilla Jordanova; Renato G. Mazzolini; Herbert Mehrtens

Year

2004

Language

English

Pages

464

Format

Hardcover

Weight

0.75

ISBN

0804739714

ISBN13

9780804739719

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Synopsis "Models: The Third Dimension of Science (Writing Science)"

Now that ‘3-D models’ are so often digital displays on flat screens, it is timely to look back at the solid models that were once the third dimension of science. This book is about wooden ships and plastic molecules, wax bodies and a perspex economy, monuments in cork and mathematics in plaster, casts of diseases, habitat dioramas, and extinct monsters rebuilt in bricks and mortar. These remarkable artefacts were fixtures of laboratories and lecture halls, studios and workshops, dockyards and museums. Considering such objects together for the first time, this interdisciplinary volume demonstrates how, in research as well as in teaching, 3-D models played major roles in making knowledge. Accessible and original chapters by leading scholars highlight the special properties of models, explore the interplay between representation in two dimensions and three, and investigate the shift to modelling with computers. The book is fascinating reading for anyone interested in the sciences, medicine, and technology, and in collections and museums.

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