Overview

Now that '3-D models' are so often digital displays on flat screens, it is timely to look back at the solid models that were once the third dimension of science. This book is about wooden ships and plastic molecules, wax bodies and a perspex economy, monuments in cork and mathematics in plaster, casts of diseases, habitat dioramas, and extinct monsters rebuilt in bricks and mortar. These remarkable artefacts were fixtures of laboratories and lecture halls, studios and workshops, dockyards and museums. Considering such objects together for the first time, this interdisciplinary volume demonstrates how, in research as well as in teaching, 3-D models played major roles in making knowledge. Accessible and original chapters by leading scholars highlight the special properties of models, explore the interplay between representation in two dimensions and three, and investigate the shift to modelling with computers. The book is fascinating reading for anyone interested in the sciences, medicine, and technology, and in collections and museums.

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Author:   Soraya de Chadarevian ,  Nick Hopwood
Publisher:   Stanford University Press
Imprint:   Stanford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.753kg
ISBN:  

9780804739719

ISBN 10:   0804739714
Pages:   488
Publication Date:   15 July 2004
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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This book is wonderful...a real treasure trove. -- The American Biology Teacher

.,. this collection of essays [provides] rich food for thought, and [is] a valuable source of material for comparison that goes well beyond the study of three dimensional models and includes, for example, the history of science as material culture, relationships between science and the public, and the relationship between different media in scientific practice. -- Social Studies of Science

...this collection of essays [provides] rich food for thought, and [is] a valuable source of material for comparison that goes well beyond the study of three dimensional models and includes, for example, the history of science as material culture, relationships between science and the public, and the relationship between different media in scientific practice. - Social Studies of Science This finely focused theme and the historical specificity of each author's contribution sustain and propel the reader through this rich, provocative collection, - Science Magazine ... [T]he wide-ranging chapters suggest intriguing aproaches to the investigation of objects which readers may wish to emulate. - Rittenhouse: Journal of the Scientific Instrument Enterprise ...[I]f you are interested in the history of science then Models-The Third Dimension of Science edited by Soraya de Chadarevian and Nick Hopwood is a highly stimulating and thought-provoking book to read. - Acta Zoologica This book is wonderful...a real treasure trove. - The American Biology Teacher

Author Information

Soraya de Chadarevian is Senior Research Associate in History and Philosophy of Science at Cambridge University. Among her publications is Molecularizing Biology and Medicine. Nick Hopwood is Lecturer in History and Philosophy of Science at Cambridge University.

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