Image and Logic: A Material Culture of Microphysics

by Peter Galison

Book Overview

"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"