Title Thing knowledge : a philosophy of scientific instruments / Davis Baird.

Imprint

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2004.

Location	Call Number	Status
Monograph Collection	Q185 .B24 2004	AVAILABLE

Description	xxi, 273 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-259) and index.
Contents	Instrument epistemology -- Models : representing things -- Working knowledge -- Encapsulating knowledge -- The instrumentation revolution -- Thing knowledge -- The thing-y-ness of things -- Between technology and science -- Instrumental objectivity -- The gift.
Subject(s)	Scientific apparatus and instruments.
	Science -- Philosophy.
	Science -- Technological innovations.