Reworking the Bench: Research Notebooks in the History of Science

by Jürgen Renn, Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, Frederic L. Holmes

Book Overview

Research records composed of notes and protocols have long played a role in the efforts to understand the origins of what have come to be seen as the established milestones in the development of modern science. The use of research records to probe the nature of scientific investigation itself however is a recent development in the history of science.
With Eduard Dijksterhuis, we could address them as a veritable "epistemologiCal laboratory". The...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1402010397
• ISBN13: 9781402010392
• Release Date: May 2003
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 326 Pages
• Weight: 1.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.6"