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Author: Aitor Anduaga (Ikerbasque Research Professor, Ikerbasque Research Professor, Basque Museum of the History of Medicine and Science, University of the Basque Country, Spain)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 18.10cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 25.10cm
Weight: 0.750kg
ISBN: 9780198755159
ISBN 10: 0198755155
Pages: 358
Publication Date: 17 December 2015
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
This work will interest historians and philosophers of geophysics ... Recommended. M. Dickinson, CHOICE Anduaga presents a challenging, deeply informed analysis of the effects of commercial interest on the content of 20th-century science. The global sciences of radio propagation and seismic study of Earth's interior provide the scenes for his critique of realism and its social/cultural origins in commercial science. This book provides essential background and tools for historians of modern global science. Greg Good, American Institute of Physics Remote sensing is a severely underdeveloped fertile ground for historians of science and technology to explore important philosophical, technical, conceptual, social, and political issues. Anduaga's Geophysics, Realism, and Industry breaks the ice and further advances the area by comparing the development of radio ionospheric propagation with that of crustal seismology in the twentieth century. For readers interested in the complex interplay between ontology and industry in light of a new experimental technology, this book is highly recommended. Chen-Pang Yeang, University of Toronto, Canada Anduaga takes readers on a journey through important but little-explored realms of twentieth century geophysics. A must-read for those interested in the rise of the modern earth sciences. Ronald E. Doel, Florida State University, USA
Anduaga presents a challenging, deeply informed analysis of the effects of commercial interest on the content of 20th-century science. The global sciences of radio propagation and seismic study of Earth's interior provide the scenes for his critique of realism and its social/cultural origins in commercial science. This book provides essential background and tools for historians of modern global science. Greg Good, American Institute of Physics Remote sensing is a severely underdeveloped fertile ground for historians of science and technology to explore important philosophical, technical, conceptual, social, and political issues. Anduaga's Geophysics, Realism, and Industry breaks the ice and further advances the area by comparing the development of radio ionospheric propagation with that of crustal seismology in the twentieth century. For readers interested in the complex interplay between ontology and industry in light of a new experimental technology, this book is highly recommended. Chen-Pang Yeang, University of Toronto, Canada Anduaga takes readers on a journey through important but little-explored realms of twentieth century geophysics. A must-read for those interested in the rise of the modern earth sciences. Ronald E. Doel, Florida State University, USA
Author Information
Aitor Anduaga is an Ikerbasque research professor at the Basque Museum of History of Medicine and Science, University of the Basque Country, Spain. He holds a Ph.D. in physics and a bachelor in philosophy. He has been a visiting scholar at the Universities of Oxford, Sydney, Montreal and Toronto, the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science of Berlin and the Smithsonian Institution of Washington. He has published extensively on the social history of geophysics, physics and technology. His main work is: 'Wireless and Empire: Geopolitics, Radio Industry and Ionosphere in the British Empire, 1918-1939' (Oxford University Press, 2009).
