Holographic Visions: A History of New Science
Autor Sean F. Johnstonen Limba Engleză Hardback – 5 apr 2006
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780198571223
ISBN-10: 0198571224
Pagini: 540
Ilustrații: 77 halftones and 15 line drawings
Dimensiuni: 178 x 254 x 34 mm
Greutate: 1.26 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0198571224
Pagini: 540
Ilustrații: 77 halftones and 15 line drawings
Dimensiuni: 178 x 254 x 34 mm
Greutate: 1.26 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Recenzii
Johnston has made some real discoveries that provide new evidence on long-discussed topics in science and technology studies.
A timely and much needed book.
anyone who seriously wishes to delve into the background and also learn about the current state of this field (as of 2005) would do far worse than consult Holographic Visions.
Only now, with Sean Johnston's richly sourced, carefully argued, multi-perspectival history, do we have an account that turns holography from a curious failure to a technique, tool, end-product, science, technology, art form and medium that can be understood as an organic part of twentieth-century society and culture.
comprehensive and compelling...captivating and convincing... the questions Johnston asks about what constitutes technological progress and how we both interpret and recognize it are vitally important. s
...successful blending of historical methods and STS framing...Even for readers only peripherally interested in holography, Johnston's book is a valuable methodological model...Johnston's description of the landscape of holography is the most surprising and satisfying dimension of the book.
Johnston writes well and tells the story persuasively in a way that should appeal to those interested in the sociology of science as well as to holography insiders...I think that Johnston has served the holographic community very well and deserves our support.
Johnston (science studies, U. of Glasgow) shows how along with the technology came the society and culture, as he explains how holography changed everything it touched...The period photographs of those who birthed the hologram are particularly well-chosen.
Although I have been active in holography for over 40 years, I learned much about my field's history from Holographic Visions. Indeed, I suspect no-one knows the story of holography better than Johnston... I would recommend this insightful and scholarly work not only to my colleagues, but also to aspiring young scientists and students in the history and sociology of science, plus the general reader who wants to see how one field developed through its early phases.
His work explains for the first time just how this spectacular subject grew to infiltrate wider culture.
A socio-historiographic approach that occasionally stretches the material, but which nonetheless is a fascinating and insightful review of almost 60 years of holography.
A timely and much needed book.
anyone who seriously wishes to delve into the background and also learn about the current state of this field (as of 2005) would do far worse than consult Holographic Visions.
Only now, with Sean Johnston's richly sourced, carefully argued, multi-perspectival history, do we have an account that turns holography from a curious failure to a technique, tool, end-product, science, technology, art form and medium that can be understood as an organic part of twentieth-century society and culture.
comprehensive and compelling...captivating and convincing... the questions Johnston asks about what constitutes technological progress and how we both interpret and recognize it are vitally important. s
...successful blending of historical methods and STS framing...Even for readers only peripherally interested in holography, Johnston's book is a valuable methodological model...Johnston's description of the landscape of holography is the most surprising and satisfying dimension of the book.
Johnston writes well and tells the story persuasively in a way that should appeal to those interested in the sociology of science as well as to holography insiders...I think that Johnston has served the holographic community very well and deserves our support.
Johnston (science studies, U. of Glasgow) shows how along with the technology came the society and culture, as he explains how holography changed everything it touched...The period photographs of those who birthed the hologram are particularly well-chosen.
Although I have been active in holography for over 40 years, I learned much about my field's history from Holographic Visions. Indeed, I suspect no-one knows the story of holography better than Johnston... I would recommend this insightful and scholarly work not only to my colleagues, but also to aspiring young scientists and students in the history and sociology of science, plus the general reader who wants to see how one field developed through its early phases.
His work explains for the first time just how this spectacular subject grew to infiltrate wider culture.
A socio-historiographic approach that occasionally stretches the material, but which nonetheless is a fascinating and insightful review of almost 60 years of holography.
Notă biografică
Dr Sean F. JohnstonUniversity of GlasgowRutherford-McCowan BuildingCrichton CampusDumfries DG1 4ZLBSc (physics, Simon Fraser University, Canada, 1978)MSc (physics, Simon Fraser University, Canada, 1980)Chartered Physicist (Institute of Physics, 1990)PhD (history and philosophy of Science, University of Leeds, 1995)Chartered Scientist (Science Council, 2004)