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Andrew Pickering

The Mangle of Practice

Time, Agency, and Science

296 pages, 11 halftones, 11 line drawings  6 x 9  © 1995

Cloth $65.00

ISBN: 9780226668024   Published August 1995

Paper $25.00

ISBN: 9780226668031   Published August 1995

Preface
1: The Mangle of Practice
2: Machines: Building the Bubble Chamber
3: Facts: The Hunting of the Quark
4: Concepts: Constructing Quaternions
5: Technology: Numerically Controlled Machine Tools
6: Living in the Material World
7: Through the Mangle
References
Index
Subjects


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