Peter Galison

CBC Radio's Ideas: How to Think About Science

In recent years, historians, sociologists, philosophers and sometimes scientists themselves have begun to ask fundamental questions about how the institution of science is structured and how it knows what it knows. David Cayley talks to some of the leading lights of this new field of study in this special series for CBC Radio's Ideas.

Peter Galison
Wed Apr 16 20:00:00 EDT 2008

Many books discuss the theories of physics. Historian Peter Galison approaches the field like an anthropologist interested in its material culture. Machines play as big a role as theories in his history of physics. External site

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