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Contributors Preface Introduction Part I. Instruments in Experiments: 1. Scientific instruments: models of brass and aids to discovery 2. Glass works: Newton's prisms and the uses of experiment 3. A viol of water or a wedge of glass Part II. Experiment and Argument: 4. Galileo's experimental discourse 5. Fresnel, Poisson and the white spot: the role of successful predictions in the acceptance of scientific theories 6. The rhetoric of experiment Part III. Representing and Realising: 7. 'Magnetic curves' and the magnetic field: experimentation and representation in the history of a theory 8. Artificial clouds, real particles 9. Living in the material world 10. Justification and experimentation Part IV. The Constituency of Experiment: 11. Extraordinary experiment: electricity and the creation of life in Victorian England 12. Why did Britain join CERN? Part V. Hallmarks of Experiment: 13. From Kwajalein to Armageddon? Testing and the social construction of missile accuracy 14. The epistemology of experiment Select bibliography Name index Subject index.
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