Image and Logic

Galison, P. (1997). Image and Logic: A Material Culture of Microphysics. University of Chicago Press.

Type

Book

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

1997

Link

https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/I/bo3637096.html

Cited from

computer_science

Cited by

2 citations across 2 artifacts.

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Primes

• Premature Optimization
  • In scientific instrumentation, it is building bespoke apparatus for a measurement before the underlying theory has settled which quantities matter.

    This sourceDocuments how experimental apparatus is built around evolving theoretical commitments about which quantities matter, so bespoke instruments tied to unsettled theory are reworked as the science shifts.

Mechanisms

• Stakeholder Knowledge Forum
  • Its strength is that it makes heterogeneous knowledge commensurable enough to reason with without erasing what makes each kind distinct — a working "trading zone" where communities coordinate across expertise they don't fully share.

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