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Image and Logic: A Material Culture of Microphysics
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Hardcover
from Univ of Chicago Pr (July 1, 1997)
9780226279169 | details & prices | 955 pages | 6.50 × 9.50 × 2.00 in. | 3.25 lbs | List price $90.00
About: "I want to get at the blown glass of the early cloud chambers and the oozing noodles of wet nuclear emulsion; to the resounding crack of a high-voltage spark arcing across a high-tension chamber and leaving the lab stinking of ozone; to the silent, darkened room, with row after row of scanners sliding trackballs across projected bubble-chamber images.
About: "I want to get at the blown glass of the early cloud chambers and the oozing noodles of wet nuclear emulsion; to the resounding crack of a high-voltage spark arcing across a high-tension chamber and leaving the lab stinking of ozone; to the silent, darkened room, with row after row of scanners sliding trackballs across projected bubble-chamber images.
Paperback
from Univ of Chicago Pr (October 1, 1997)
9780226279176 | details & prices | 6.00 × 9.00 × 1.75 in. | 2.85 lbs | List price $64.00