Book Review: Vetter J. (2016) Field Life: Science in the American West during the Railroad Era. Intersections: Histories of Environment, Science and Technology in the Anthropocene Series, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press [Book Review]

&
Sociology of Power 33 (3):305-315 (2021)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

This article has no associated abstract. (fix it)

Categories

Add categories

Keywords

Reprint years

DOI

10.22394/2074-0492-2021-3-305-315

Links

PhilArchive



    Upload a copy of this work     Papers currently archived: 92,150

External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

My notes

Similar books and articles

Franklin’s Field Guide to Scientific Experiments - Allan Franklin, What Makes a Good Experiment? Reasons and Roles in Science. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press (2016), 384 pp., $55.00. [REVIEW]Nora Mills Boyd - 2017 - Philosophy of Science 84 (3):586-594.
Review of Léna Soler, Emiliano Trizio, and Andrew Pickering, eds. Science as It Could Have Been. Discussing the Contingency/Inevitability Problem. Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh University Press, 2016. [REVIEW]Katherina Kinzel - 2016 - Hopos: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science 6 (2):319-323.
Field life: science in the American West during the railroad era.Jeremy Vetter - 2016 - Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh Press.
Erik L. Peterson, The Life Organic: The Theoretical Biology Club and the Roots of Epigenetics. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016. Pp. xvi + 334. ISBN 978-0-8229-4466-9. $45.00. [REVIEW]Boris Jardine - 2017 - British Journal for the History of Science 50 (4):740-741.
Science along the Railroad: Expanding Field Work in the US Central West.Jeremy Vetter - 2004 - Annals of Science 61 (2):187-211.
Conceptual heterogeneity and the legacy of organicism: thoughts on the life organic: Essay review of Erik Peterson, The life organic: the theoretical biology club and the roots of epigenetics, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016, 328 pp., $45.00.Daniel S. Brooks - 2019 - History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 41 (2):24.
Science along the Railroad: Expanding Field Work in the US Central West.Jeremy Vetter - 2004 - Annals of Science 61 (3):271-271.
Matthew J. Crawford, The Andean Wonder Drug: Cinchona Bark and Imperial Science in the Spanish Atlantic, 1630–1800. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016. Pp. xi + 284. ISBN 978-0-8229-4452-2. $45.00. [REVIEW]Anna Simmons - 2017 - British Journal for the History of Science 50 (1):150-151.
Patrick Manning; Daniel Rood (Editors). Global Scientific Practice in an Age of Revolutions, 1750–1850. vii + 401 pp., figs., bibl., index. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016. $49.95 (cloth); ISBN 9780822944546. E-book available. Patrick Manning; Mat Savelli (Editors). Global Transformations in the Life Sciences, 1945–1980. xi + 314 pp., notes, bibl., index. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018. $45 (cloth); ISBN 9780822945277. E-book available. Patrick Manning; Abigail Owen (Editors). Knowledge in Translation: Global Patterns of Scientific Exchange, 1000–1800 CE. xv + 437 pp., notes, bibl., index. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018. $55 (cloth); ISBN 9780822945376. E-book available. [REVIEW]Dániel Margócsy - 2020 - Isis 111 (4):852-855.
Allan Franklin. What Makes a Good Experiment? Reasons and Roles in Science. viii + 372 pp., figs., tables, bibl., index. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016. $55. [REVIEW]Theodore Arabatzis - 2018 - Isis 109 (1):146-147.
Hyung Wook Park. Old Age, New Science: Gerontologists and Their Biosocial Visions, 1900–1960. viii + 342 pp., illus., tables, figs., bibl., index. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016. $50. [REVIEW]J. Rosser Matthews - 2017 - Isis 108 (2):472-473.
Patrick Manning and Daniel Rood , Global Scientific Practice in an Age of Revolutions, 1750–1850. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016. Pp. 416. ISBN 978-0822944546. £40.00. [REVIEW]Diarmid Finnegan - 2017 - British Journal for the History of Science 50 (2):354-356.
Erik L. Peterson. The Life Organic: The Theoretical Biology Club and the Roots of Epigenetics. xvi + 334 pp., figs., bibl., index. Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016. $31.50. [REVIEW]Maurizio Esposito - 2018 - Isis 109 (1):216-217.
Friedrich Steinle, Exploratory Experiments: Ampère, Faraday and the Origins of Electrodynamics. Translated by Alex Levine. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016. Pp. 494. ISBN 978-0-8229-4450-8. $65.00. [REVIEW]Isobel Falconer - 2018 - British Journal for the History of Science 51 (2):328-329.
Other histories, other sciences.Kidd Ian James - 2017 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 61:57-60.

Analytics

Added to PP
2024-01-30

Downloads
2 (#1,806,630)

6 months
2 (#1,203,746)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Citations of this work

No citations found.

Add more citations

References found in this work

No references found.

Add more references