Models: The Third Dimension of Science

by Soraya de Chadarevian

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804739722
• ISBN13: 9780804739726
• Release Date: July 2004
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 488 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.0"