1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910957060303321

Titolo

Reasoning in measurement / / edited by Nicola MÖSSNER and Alfred Nordmann

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2017

ISBN

1-351-96643-X

1-78144-871-X

1-351-96644-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (275 pages) : illustrations

Collana

History and Philosophy of Technoscience ; ; 9

Altri autori (Persone)

MA?ssnerNicola

NordmannAlfred <1956->

Disciplina

530.801

Soggetti

Measurement - History

Metrology - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. I. Founding figures -- part II. Images as measurements -- part III. Measuring the immeasurable -- part IV. Calibrating mind and world.

Sommario/riassunto

This collection offers a new understanding of the epistemology of measurement. The interdisciplinary volume explores how measurements are produced, for example, in astronomy and seismology, in studies of human sexuality and ecology, in brain imaging and intelligence testing. It considers photography as a measurement technology and Henry David Thoreau's poetic measures as closing the gap between mind and world. By focusing on measurements as the hard-won results of conceptual as well as technical operations, the authors of the book no longer presuppose that measurement is always and exclusively a means of representing some feature of a target object or entity. Measurement also provides knowledge about the degree to which things have been standardized or harmonized - it is an indicator of how closely human practices are attuned to each other and the world.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910367655703321

Autore

Comstock Anna Botsford <1854-1930, >

Titolo

The Comstocks of Cornell : John Henry Comstock and Anna Botsford Comstock / / Anna Botsford Comstock

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ithaca, NY : , : Cornell University Press, , [2019]

©2019

ISBN

1-5017-4053-9

1-5017-4054-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (312 p.) : 7 illustrations

Disciplina

595.7092

B

Soggetti

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Environmentalists & Naturalists

Science - Study and teaching

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The boyhood of John Henry Comstock, 1849-1865 -- A sailor and a scholar -- Undergraduate days at Cornell -- Anna Botsford Comstock : childhood and girlhood -- A university professorship and marriage, 1876-1879 -- Entomologist to U. S. Department of Agriculture (life in Washington as United States entomologist, 1879-1881) -- Return to Cornell -- The year 1888-1889; with a winter in Germany -- California and Stanford University -- The nature study movement at Cornell University; a journey south to study spiders -- How to know butterflies and the confessions to a heathen idol -- A sabbatical year abroad : Egypt and Greece -- Italy, Switzerland, and home -- Chapter 15 : 1908-1912, Cornell's new quarters for entomology and nature study -- The two-hundred and fiftieth-anniversary celebration of the Royal Society and the International Entomological Congress -- The 65th milestone and retirement -- Florida and retirement -- The Toronto meeting of the A.A.A.S. 1922. A surprising voyage westward -- Honolulu and happiness, a voyage to Europe -- Mentone.

Sommario/riassunto

The Comstocks of Cornell is the autobiography written by naturalist educator Anna Botsford Comstock about her life and her husband's,



entomologist John Henry Comstock--both prominent figures in the scientific community and in Cornell University history. A first edition was published in 1953, but it omitted key Cornellians, historical anecdotes, and personal insights. Karen Penders St. Clair's twenty-first century edition returns Mrs. Comstock's voice to her book by rekeying her entire manuscript as she wrote it, and preserving the memories of the personal and professional lives of the Comstocks that she had originally intended to share. The book includes a complete epilogue of the Comstocks' last years and fills in gaps from the 1953 edition. Described as serious legacy work, the book is an essential part of Cornell University history and an important piece of Cornell University Press history.