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Material Culture and the Dobsonian Telescope 物质文化和多布森望远镜
Pub Date : 2010-08-09 DOI: 10.4245/SPONGE.V4I1.11947
J. Sewell, Andrew Johnston
This article examines the Dobsonian Telescope as an object of material culture, showing how starting with the materiality of a scientific instrument opens up new perspectives that are lost by focusing purely on its instrumentality. It argues that the simple design and homely materials of the Dobsonian telescope, as well as the gestures that it requires from its users, are at the core of its significance to the popularization of amateur astronomy and amateur telescope making.
本文将多布森望远镜作为一种物质文化的对象进行研究,展示了如何从科学仪器的物质性开始,开辟了纯粹关注其仪器性而失去的新视角。它认为,多布森望远镜简单的设计和朴素的材料,以及它对使用者的要求,是它对业余天文学和业余望远镜制作普及意义的核心。
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Apparatus and Experimentation Revisited 仪器与实验重访
Pub Date : 2010-08-09 DOI: 10.4245/SPONGE.V4I1.11892
T. Levere
Those with knowledge about scientific instruments come from many different fields. Prominent among them are (1) collectors and dealers, (2) curators, (3) historians, (4) instrument makers, (5) philosophers, and (6) scientists (the order is alphabetical, not value-laden). The annual symposium of the Scientific Instrument Commission often brings members of each of these groups together, and they learn from one another. What follows are brief reflections on the activities of each group when its members consider instruments.
那些有科学仪器知识的人来自许多不同的领域。其中最突出的是(1)收藏家和经销商,(2)策展人,(3)历史学家,(4)乐器制造商,(5)哲学家,(6)科学家(顺序是按字母顺序排列的,而不是价值取向)。科学仪器委员会的年度研讨会经常把这些小组的成员聚集在一起,他们相互学习。以下是对每个小组成员在考虑工具时的活动的简要反思。
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引用次数: 0
“Old” Technology in New Hands: Instruments as Mediators of Interdisciplinary Learning in Microfluidics “旧”技术在新手中:仪器作为微流体跨学科学习的媒介
Pub Date : 2010-08-09 DOI: 10.4245/SPONGE.V4I1.11942
D. S. Olsen
In his article on radical innovation, Shinn (2005) examined the role of scientific instruments in innovation. This paper continues to investigate this theme, but the main focus is on how scientists or engineers from one discipline may learn from another and produce new knowledge and new technology. The paper looks at the role that tools and instruments developed by one discipline, in one environment, can play in the development of knowledge in a new environment. The theoretical basis for this study is Vygotsky’s (1978) concept of tool-mediated activity. The proposed conceptualisation views instruments as dynamic and suggests types of tool-mediated activities which may contribute to knowledge creation. The collaborative process of experimentation is examined and opportunities for knowledge creation are discussed in relation to the instruments used. Methods used are interviews and observations. The case study is a small multidisciplinary laboratory developing a new process for producing nanoreactors, with potential applications in pharmaceuticals and energy.
在他关于激进创新的文章中,Shinn(2005)研究了科学仪器在创新中的作用。本文继续研究这一主题,但主要关注的是来自一个学科的科学家或工程师如何从另一个学科学习并产生新知识和新技术。本文着眼于在一个环境中由一个学科开发的工具和仪器在新环境中的知识发展中所起的作用。本研究的理论基础是维果茨基(Vygotsky, 1978)的工具介导活动概念。拟议的概念化将工具视为动态的,并建议可能有助于知识创造的工具中介活动类型。研究了实验的协作过程,并讨论了与所使用的工具有关的知识创造机会。使用的方法是访谈和观察。这个案例研究是一个小型的多学科实验室,正在开发一种生产纳米反应器的新工艺,在制药和能源领域有潜在的应用。
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引用次数: 4
Learning From Artifacts: A Review of the “Reading Artifacts: Summer Institute in the Material Culture of Science,” Presented by The Canada Science and Technology Museum and Situating Science Cluster 从文物中学习:“阅读文物:科学物质文化中的暑期研修”述评,加拿大科技馆和情境科学集群主办
Pub Date : 2010-08-09 DOI: 10.4245/SPONGE.V4I1.13861
J. Virdi
Describing how the study of artifacts is greatly enhanced by an understanding of the history of museums, Ken Arnold remarks that there is “an implicit faith in the power of objects to tell, or at least ask, historians things that the written word alone cannot” (1999, p. 145). Rather than remaining mute objects or passive accessories to textual descriptions, artifacts (and the museums that house them) are tangible incarnations of the culture from which they emerged, providing unique information on the attitudes and behaviors of the past. In practice, studying and learning from artifacts can sometimes pose methodological problems, as a text-oriented historian may have no idea of how to “read” an object in order to reveal its secrets of the past. Historians and philosophers are trained almost exclusively to work with written and oral documents, limiting their analysis by neglecting such a valuable group of sources. However, as outlined in a special issue of Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science (2007, vol. 38, no. 2), it is apparent that a new historiographical tide has swept over scholars, encouraging new studies and methodologies for working with artifacts, objects, and images.
肯·阿诺德(Ken Arnold)在描述对博物馆历史的理解如何极大地促进了对文物的研究时指出,“人们对文物的力量有一种隐含的信念,它可以告诉或至少向历史学家询问文字本身无法做到的事情”(1999年,第145页)。文物(以及收藏它们的博物馆)不是沉默的物品或文字描述的被动附属品,而是它们所产生的文化的有形体现,提供了关于过去态度和行为的独特信息。在实践中,研究和学习人工制品有时会带来方法论问题,因为以文本为导向的历史学家可能不知道如何“阅读”一个对象,以揭示其过去的秘密。历史学家和哲学家所接受的训练几乎都是专门研究书面和口头文件,这就限制了他们的分析,因为他们忽视了这样一组有价值的资料来源。然而,正如《科学史与哲学研究》(2007年第38卷)特刊所概述的那样。2)很明显,一股新的史学浪潮席卷了学者们,鼓励新的研究和方法来研究人工制品、物体和图像。
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引用次数: 2
William Sims Bainbridge. The Warcraft Civilization: Social Science in a Virtual World 威廉·西姆斯·班布里奇。《魔兽文明:虚拟世界中的社会科学
Pub Date : 2010-08-09 DOI: 10.4245/SPONGE.V4I1.13757
Bruce J. Petrie
New branches of social science primarily engaging the “internet revolution” are appearing alongside mainstream research and journals such as Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking are providing social scientists with an outlet of peer-reviewed research. HPS scholars will find new methodologies and the relation of technology to social science of particularly interest. Social scientists are becoming increasingly interested in virtual realities (see Milburn (Spontaneous Generations 2008, 63)) and are declaring time spent “in-game” ethnographic research. William Sims Bainbridge boasts 2300+ hours (approximately 96 days) of ethnographic research into a virtual world he calls “The Warcraft Civilization.” Blizzard Entertainment reported in a December 2008 press release that World of Warcraft (WoW), its extraordinarily successful 2004 massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) comprised 11.5 million subscribers worldwide . In order to accommodate player demand, Blizzard uses hundreds of servers, artfully called realms, each running an instance of WoW for subscribers to play on. There are four types of realms: normal or player-versus-environment (PvE) realms, player-versus-player (PvP) realms, role-playing (RP) realms, and role-playing player-versus-player (RP-PvP) realms. The most popular realms are PvE and PvP; players on RP and RP-PvP realms are meant to “live” in WoW and therefore must adhere to role-playing policies such as remaining “in-character” of the avatar they have selected.
主要参与“互联网革命”的社会科学新分支与主流研究一起出现,网络心理学、行为和社会网络等期刊为社会科学家提供了同行评议研究的出口。HPS学者将发现新的方法和技术与社会科学的关系特别感兴趣。社会科学家对虚拟现实越来越感兴趣(参见Milburn的《自发世代》(Spontaneous Generations), 2008, 63)),并宣称花时间进行“游戏内”人种学研究。William Sims Bainbridge对他称之为“魔兽文明”的虚拟世界进行了2300多个小时(约96天)的人种学研究。暴雪娱乐公司在2008年12月的一份新闻稿中称,其2004年大获成功的大型多人在线角色扮演游戏《魔兽世界》在全球拥有1150万用户。为了满足玩家的需求,暴雪使用了数百个服务器,巧妙地称为realms,每个服务器都运行一个《魔兽世界》的实例供用户玩。有四种类型的领域:普通或玩家对抗环境(PvE)领域、玩家对抗玩家(PvP)领域、角色扮演(RP)领域和角色扮演玩家对抗玩家(RP-PvP)领域。最受欢迎的领域是PvE和PvP;RP和RP- pvp领域的玩家意味着“活在”《魔兽世界》中,因此必须坚持角色扮演策略,如保持他们所选择的角色的“角色”。
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引用次数: 2
Eileen Crist and H. Bruce Rinker, eds. Gaia in Turmoil: Climate Change, Biodepletion and Earth Ethics in an Age of Crisis 艾琳·克里斯特和h·布鲁斯·林克主编。动荡中的盖亚:危机时代的气候变化、生物枯竭和地球伦理
Pub Date : 2010-08-09 DOI: 10.4245/SPONGE.V4I1.14192
Julia Agapitos
Gaia in Turmoil is the latest collaborative work put forth by the interdisciplinary group of Gaian thinkers. The contributors set out to meaningfully grapple with the bewildering ecological and social crises that humanity faces in this young century. Their work clearly rests on the assumption that such crises not only exist, but are dire—a conviction that unifies the essays in Gaia in Turmoil. By demonstrating how Gaia theory can advance various research projects, Gaia in Turmoil is an alarmist plea to integrate the Gaian perspective into mainstream thought as the next watershed paradigm through which humanity can survive and prosper.
动荡中的盖亚是由跨学科的盖亚思想者小组提出的最新合作作品。作者开始有意义地与人类在本世纪初面临的令人困惑的生态和社会危机作斗争。他们的工作显然建立在这样一种假设之上,即这样的危机不仅存在,而且是可怕的——这种信念将《动荡中的盖亚》一书中的文章统一起来。通过展示盖亚理论如何推动各种研究项目,《动荡中的盖亚》是一个危言耸听的请求,呼吁将盖亚观点整合到主流思想中,作为人类能够生存和繁荣的下一个分水岭范式。
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引用次数: 2
Let Freeness Ring: The Canadian Standard Freeness Tester as Hegemonic Engine 让自由响起:加拿大标准自由测试仪作为霸权引擎
Pub Date : 2010-08-09 DOI: 10.4245/SPONGE.V4I1.11331
J. Hull
In important respects measurement practices underlay both the Second Scientific Revolution and the Second Industrial Revolution. Such practices, using increasingly accurate and precise instruments, both turned laboratories into factories for the production of exact measurement and also made factories the sites of laboratory-type and laboratory-quality measurement. Those who had learnt the protocols of precise, instrumentational measurement in university science and engineering classrooms, used those instruments and their skills to monitor and control industrial production, exchange technical data within and among firms and formulate and implement technical standardization in industry. That these instruments measured not natural phenomena but technological ones made them no different in kind from what are more conventionally regarded as scientific instruments. Some indeed were simply instruments developed for scientific investigation and adapted for industrial use while others were created specifically for particular industrial applications. But more than the purely technical was going on in the use of those instruments. In addition to their function of producing knowledge they were also, in industrial production, instruments of hegemony – hegemony which, as Gramsci reminds us, begins in the factory. Among the lesser known of these devices is the freeness tester, used in production to control the manufacture of pulp and also in industrial research laboratories for the investigation of the pulping process. The Canadian Standard Freeness Tester (CSFT), developed at a Canadian government research facility on the campus of McGill University in the 1920s, quickly became a standard instrument in the pulp mills of North America and gained wide acceptance in other countries; it remains in use to this day. An understanding of its creation and function can provide a useful case study of the general observations discussed above.
在重要方面,测量实践是第二次科学革命和第二次工业革命的基础。这种使用越来越精确和精密的仪器的做法,既使实验室变成了生产精确测量的工厂,也使工厂成为实验室类型和实验室质量测量的场所。那些在大学科学和工程课堂上学习了精确的仪器测量协议的人,使用这些仪器和他们的技能来监测和控制工业生产,在企业内部和企业之间交换技术数据,制定和实施工业技术标准化。这些仪器测量的不是自然现象,而是技术现象,这使得它们与传统上被认为是科学仪器的东西没有什么不同。有些确实只是为科学研究而开发的仪器,并经过改造以适应工业使用,而另一些则是专门为特定的工业应用而创造的。但这些仪器的使用不仅仅是纯粹的技术问题。除了生产知识的功能之外,它们在工业生产中也是霸权的工具——正如葛兰西提醒我们的那样,霸权始于工厂。在这些装置中,不太为人所知的是游离度测试仪,用于生产中控制纸浆的制造,也用于工业研究实验室中对制浆过程的调查。加拿大标准游离度测试仪(CSFT)于20世纪20年代在麦吉尔大学校园内的加拿大政府研究机构开发,迅速成为北美纸浆厂的标准仪器,并在其他国家得到广泛接受;它至今仍在使用。了解它的创建和功能可以为上面讨论的一般观察提供有用的案例研究。
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引用次数: 2
The Machine Speaks Falsely 机器会说假话
Pub Date : 2010-08-09 DOI: 10.4245/SPONGE.V4I1.11333
A. Franklin
How can one determine if an experimental apparatus is giving an incorrect result, if it is speaking falsely? An interesting example of this occurred in the experimental investigation, in the early twentieth century, of the energy spectrum of electrons emitted in β decay. Meitner and her collaborators (1911), using photographic detection, found that all the electrons emitted by a single radioactive element were monoenergetic. Chadwick (1914), on the other hand, using either an ionization chamber or a Geiger counter, found a continuous energy spectrum. Meitner et al. proposed various mechanisms whereby initially monoenergetic electrons might lose energy. These were shown to be unsatisfactory, although the possibility of an unknown mechanism for energy loss remained. In 1927 Ellis and Wooster, using a total-absorption calorimeter, which eliminated all of these possibilities, demonstrated that the energy spectrum was indeed continuous. It had taken fifteen years to show that the photographic detection had spoken falsely.
如果实验仪器在错误地说话,人们如何确定它是否给出了不正确的结果?这方面的一个有趣的例子发生在20世纪初对β衰变中发射的电子能谱的实验研究中。迈特纳和她的合作者(1911年)利用照相探测发现,单一放射性元素发射的所有电子都是单能的。另一方面,查德威克(1914)使用电离室或盖革计数器,发现了连续的能谱。Meitner等人提出了各种机制,最初的单能电子可能会失去能量。这些结果并不令人满意,尽管能量损失的未知机制仍然存在。1927年,埃利斯和伍斯特使用全吸收量热计,排除了所有这些可能性,证明了能谱确实是连续的。花了15年的时间才证明照相探测仪说的是假的。
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引用次数: 0
Adrian Parr. Hijacking Sustainability 艾德里安·帕尔。劫持的可持续性
Pub Date : 2010-08-09 DOI: 10.4245/SPONGE.V4I1.14196
R. Moore
Defining sustainability is a tricky endeavor. While Adrian Parr’s Hijacking Sustainability does not contribute a clear definition of the term, it does provide a series of interesting and useful examples to illustrate some of the difficulties and inconsistencies of applying so-called sustainable ideals to a capitalist infrastructure. While the concept behind Parr’s work is intriguing, the book itself, which focuses on the nature, construction, and impact of sustainability culture, is verbose, convoluted, and difficult.
定义可持续性是一项棘手的工作。虽然阿德里安·帕尔的《劫持可持续发展》并没有对这个术语做出明确的定义,但它确实提供了一系列有趣而有用的例子,说明了将所谓的可持续理想应用于资本主义基础设施的一些困难和矛盾。虽然帕尔作品背后的概念很有趣,但这本关注可持续文化的性质、结构和影响的书本身却冗长、复杂、难懂。
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引用次数: 0
An Instrument for What? Digital Computers, Simulation and Scientific Practice 什么乐器?数字计算机、仿真与科学实践
Pub Date : 2010-08-09 DOI: 10.4245/SPONGE.V4I1.13765
W. Parker
As a device used by scientists in the course of performing research, the digital computer might be considered a scientific instrument. But if so, what is it an instrument for? This paper explores a number of answers to this question, focusing on the use of computers in a simulating mode.
作为科学家在进行研究过程中使用的一种设备,数字计算机可以被认为是一种科学仪器。但如果是这样,它是用来做什么的乐器呢?本文探讨了这个问题的一些答案,重点是在模拟模式下使用计算机。
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