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Series: Experimental Futures: Technological Lives, Scientific Arts, Anthropological Voices
Published: 22 September 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027270-011
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2727-0
... The appendix describes an apparatus set up by Galileo in 1608 to measure velocity, a necessary step in proving that the Earth is in motion, rotating on its own axis while circling the Sun. Stengers explores how what was “perhaps the first experimental demonstration” worked, and she argues...
Series: Experimental Futures: Technological Lives, Scientific Arts, Anthropological Voices
Published: 22 September 2023
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2727-0
... Galileo experimental apparatus power of science reliable witness ecological crisis ...
Series: Experimental Futures: Technological Lives, Scientific Arts, Anthropological Voices
Published: 22 September 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027270-004
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2727-0
... Starting with a discussion of Galileo and his experimental apparatus, this chapter addresses the singularity of theoretico-experimental science and the power that its practices articulate. It reconsiders the “epic” genre of narrative that the Galilean fable of origins has given rise to and its...
Published: 01 April 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375494-014
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7549-4
... This entry introduces several scholarly literatures on radio with the aim of amplifying possible responses to the question: How might we define radio as “wireless sound”? The entry begins by describing the material and institutional apparatus by which radio coheres around the globe...