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This first detailed historical treatment of the electron microscope in biology advances an original philosophical argument on the relation of experimental technology to scientific change.

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"All too often the history of sciences takes for granted the role of instruments in scientific progress. Picture Control is a welcome and notable exception. . . . The book is rich in historic anecdotes. . . . Rasmussen provides a cogent discussion of introducing a revolutionary instrument into science."—American Zoologist

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Note on usage and technical terms Introduction: scientific knowledge and its means of production 1. RCA and the war years 2. Stuart Mudd and his school of bacteriological electron microscopy 3. The Rockefeller school and the rise of cell biology 4. Muscle, nerve, and the iron men of MIT 5. Wendell Stanley. Robley Williams, and the land of the virus 6. Through another looking glass: lived experience and biological electron microscopy Notes Index.

Picture Control The Electron Microscope and the

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      Publisher: Stanford University Press
      Publication Date: 01/08/1999
      ISBN13: 9780804738507, 978-0804738507
      ISBN10: 0804738505
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This first detailed historical treatment of the electron microscope in biology advances an original philosophical argument on the relation of experimental technology to scientific change.

      Trade Review
      "All too often the history of sciences takes for granted the role of instruments in scientific progress. Picture Control is a welcome and notable exception. . . . The book is rich in historic anecdotes. . . . Rasmussen provides a cogent discussion of introducing a revolutionary instrument into science."—American Zoologist

      Table of Contents
      Note on usage and technical terms Introduction: scientific knowledge and its means of production 1. RCA and the war years 2. Stuart Mudd and his school of bacteriological electron microscopy 3. The Rockefeller school and the rise of cell biology 4. Muscle, nerve, and the iron men of MIT 5. Wendell Stanley. Robley Williams, and the land of the virus 6. Through another looking glass: lived experience and biological electron microscopy Notes Index.

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