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Part of the book series: Archimedes (ARIM, volume 7)
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About this book
With Eduard Dijksterhuis, we could address them as a veritable "epistemologiCal laboratory". The purpose of a workshop entitled "Reworking the Bench: Laboratory Notebooks in the History of Science", held at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin was to bring together historians who have been exploiting such resources, to compare the similarities and differences in the materials they had used and and to measure the potential and scope for future explorations of "science in the making" based on such forms of documentation. The contributions which form this volume are based on papers presented at this workshop or written afterward by participants in the discussions.
This is the first book that addresses the issue of research notes for writing history of science in a comprehensive manner. Its case studies range from the early modern period to present and cover a broad range of different disciplines.
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"Reworking the Bench provides a splendid survey of the work of 15 historians of science, experts in different areas and periods of modern age, with many years of experience in this kind of historical investigation. … the essays also contain interesting general epistemological results. … research notes prove to be indispensable for disclosing the underlying aspects of research that are kept secret by the official accounts like published articles or autobiographical records." (Ariane Dröscher, History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, Vol. 27, 2005)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Reworking the Bench
Book Subtitle: Research Notebooks in the History of Science
Editors: Frederic L. Holmes, Jürgen Renn, Hans-Jörg Rheinberger
Series Title: Archimedes
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-48152-9
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2003
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-1039-2Published: 31 May 2003
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-6183-6Published: 05 December 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-0-306-48152-9Published: 11 April 2006
Series ISSN: 1385-0180
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0064
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 326
Topics: Epistemology, History, general, Cultural Heritage