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Introduction: Observation Observed | p. 1 |
Framing the History of Scientific Observation, 500-1800 | |
Introduction | p. 11 |
Observation in the Margins, 500-1500 | p. 15 |
Observation Rising: Birth of an Epistemic Genre, 1500-1650 | p. 45 |
The Empire of Observation, 1600 -1800 | p. 81 |
Observing and Believing: Evidence | |
Introduction | p. 115 |
The Color of Blood: Between Sensory Experience and Epistemic Significance | p. 117 |
Seeing Is Believing: Professor Vagner's Wonderful World | p. 135 |
A Visual History of Jean Perrin's Brownian Motion Curves | p. 156 |
Observing in New Ways: Techniques | |
Introduction | p. 181 |
Frogs on the Mantelpiece: The Practice of Observation in Daily Life | p. 185 |
Sorting Things Out: The Economist as an Armchair Observer | p. 206 |
"A Number of Scenes in a Badly Cut Film": Observation in the Age of Strobe | p. 230 |
Empathy as a Psychoanalytic Mode of Observation: Between Sentiment and Science | p. 255 |
Observing New Things: Objects | |
Introduction | p. 277 |
Reforming Vision: The Engineer Le Play Learns to Observe Society Sagely | p. 281 |
Seeking Parts, Looking for Wholes | p. 303 |
Seeing the Blush: Feeling Emotions | p. 326 |
Visualizing Radiation: The Photographs of Henri Becquerel | p. 349 |
Observing Together: Communities | |
Introduction | p. 369 |
The Geography of Observation: Distance and Visibility in Eighteenth-Century Botanical Travel | p. 373 |
The World on a Page: Making a General Observation in the Eighteenth Century | p. 396 |
Coming to Attention: A Commonwealth of Observers during the Napoleonic Wars | p. 421 |
List of Contributors | p. 445 |
Index | p. 449 |
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