Contributors
Preface
Introduction
Part I. Instruments in Experiments:
1. Scientific instruments: models of brass and aids to discovery
2. Glass works: Newton's prisms and the uses of experiment
3. A viol of water or a wedge of glass
Part II. Experiment and Argument:
4. Galileo's experimental discourse
5. Fresnel, Poisson and the white spot: the role of successful predictions in the acceptance of scientific theories
6. The rhetoric of experiment
Part III. Representing and Realising:
7. 'Magnetic curves' and the magnetic field: experimentation and representation in the history of a theory
8. Artificial clouds, real particles
9. Living in the material world
10. Justification and experimentation
Part IV. The Constituency of Experiment:
11. Extraordinary experiment: electricity and the creation of life in Victorian England
12. Why did Britain join CERN?
Part V. Hallmarks of Experiment:
13. From Kwajalein to Armageddon? Testing and the social construction of missile accuracy
14. The epistemology of experiment
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Name index
Subject index