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THE THIRD MAN: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF WILLIAM MURDOCH 1754-1839 - Inventor of GaslightING
[Buy it!] | GRIFFITHS, John | USD 16.84
(Sun May 26 10:24:34 2024) | Choosebooks/ZVAB | Chaucer Bookshop ABA ILAB | ISBN10: 0233987789, ISBN13: 9780233987781, [publisher: London Andre Deutsch 1992] Hardcover First Edition FIRST EDITION 8vo. navy blue clothbound hardback, gilt, with dust jacket. 373pp. with b/w illustrations. Ex Library copy with 'Canterbury Museum' stamps to inside front cover. Dust Jacket has not been price clipped. A VERY GOOD COPY. (Shelf 200) ISBN: 0233987789 Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.** Pictures available upon request.** Visit our homepage for our shop opening hours. Over 20,000 books in stock - come and browse. PayPal, credit and most debit cards welcome. Books posted worldwide. For any queries please contact us direct.
[Canterbury, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1992]
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Trafficking Materials and Gendered Experimental Practices (Hardcover)
[Buy it!] | Maria Rentetzi | USD 126.04
(Sun May 26 10:24:55 2024) | AbebooksUK | CitiRetail | ISBN10: 0231135580, ISBN13: 9780231135580, [publisher: Columbia University Press, New York] Hardcover Hardcover. Maria Rentetzi surveys the experimental practices of radioactivity research in early-twentieth-century Vienna, focusing on radioactive materials, instruments, women's work in physics, and gendered skills. She shows how experimental cultures in radioactivity-scientific practices employed by gendered subjects who shared a certain material and epistemic style of research-were constructed and reshaped by socialist politics in Vienna at that time. She also explores the different ways experimental practices affected men and women in laboratory sciences.Rentetzi expands the notion of material culture to include not only instruments and objects but also materials that operated as both commodities and objects of scientific inquiry. She tells a multifaceted story of how purified radium ended up on laboratory benches and who extracted and isolated it from tons of residues; the individuals who designed experiments and instruments for probing radium's properties; and those who carried radium outside of the physics laboratory and into the clinic and medical amphitheatres. Rentetzi examines how the architecture of the laboratory affected men's and women's scientific work and the way in which its urban setting reflected assumptions about scientific cross-disciplinary collaborations.Following the circulation of radium and the pursuit of power through strategies of partnership and collaboration, Rentetzi redraws paths of scientific exchange and transfers the reader from scientific laboratories to hospitals and from academic to industrial sites. Surveys the materials and experimental practices of radioactivity research in early twentieth century Vienna, focusing on radioactive materials, instruments, women's work in physics, and gendered skills. This title shows how experimental cultures in radioactivity are constructed and reshaped by politics as well as scientists of different genders. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
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