Models The Third Dimension of Science |
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Editor:
| de Chadarevian, Soraya Hopwood, Nick |
Series title: | Writing Science Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-8047-3971-9 |
Publication Date: | Jul 2004 |
Publisher: | Stanford University Press
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $150.00 |
Book Description:
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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. Considering such objects together for the first time, this interdisciplinary volume demonstrates how, in research as well as teaching, 3-D models played major roles in making knowledge.
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. Considering such objects together for the first time, this interdisciplinary volume demonstrates how, in research as well as teaching, 3-D models played major roles in making knowledge.