Models: The Third Dimension of Science

This book is about wooden ships and plastic molecules, wax bodies and a perspex economy, monuments in cork and mathematics in plaster, casts of diseases, habitat dioramas and extinct monsters rebuilt in bricks and mortar. Considering such objects together for the first time, this interdisciplinary volume demonstrates how, in research as well as teaching, 3-D models played major roles in making knowledge.

Author: Soraya De Chadarevian
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 07/15/2004
Pages: 488
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.42lbs
Size: 9.04h x 6.42w x 1.06d
ISBN: 9780804739726

Review Citation(s):
Choice 01/01/2005 pg. 873
Scitech Book News 12/01/2004 pg. 14

About the Author
Soraya de Chadarevian is Senior Research Associate in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge. She is the author, most recently, of Designs for Life: Molecular Biology after World War II (2002). Nick Hopwood is Lecturer in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge. His publications include Embryos in Wax: Models from the Ziegler Studio (2002).