The uses of experiment :  studies in the natural sciences / 
edited by David Gooding, Trevor Pinch and Simon Schaffer. 
 - Cambridge [England].  New York :  Cambridge University Press,  1989. 
 - xvii, 481 p. :  ill. ;  24 cm.  
<br/><br/> Selected papers from a meeting in Bath in 1985 which have been substantially revised. 
<br/><br/>Bibliography: (pages 461-467) and indexes. 
<br/><br/>Part I: Instruments in experiment -- Scientific instruments: models of brass and aids to discovery -- Glass works: Newton's prisms and the users of experiment -- A viol of water or a wedge of glass -- Part II: Experiement and argument -- Galiloe's experimental discourse -- Fresnal, Poisson and the white spot: the role of successful predictions in the acceptance of scientific theories -- The rhetoric of experiment -- Part III: Representing and realising -- 'Magnetic curves' and the magnetic field: experimentation and representation in the history of a theory -- Artificial clouds, real particles -- Living in the material world -- Justification and experiment -- Part IV: The constituency of experiment -- Extraordinary experiment: electricity and the creation of life in Victorian England -- Why did Britain join CERN? -- Part V: Hallmarks of experiment -- From Kwajalein to Armageddomn? testing and the social construction of missile accuracy -- The epistemology of experiment. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0521331854 0521337682  
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>88011630 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Science--Experiments<br/>Science--Methodology--Case studies.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>501.8