Pisano R. (ed.) A Bridge between Conceptual Frameworks: Sciences, Society and Technology Studies

Springer, 2015. — 582 p.This book analyzes scientific problems within the history of physics, engineering, chemistry, astronomy and medicine, correlated with technological applications in the social context. When and how is tension between disciplines explicitly practised? What is the conceptual bridge between science researches and the organization of technological researches in the development of industrial applications?
The authors explain various ways in which the sciences allowed advanced modelling on the one hand, and the development of new technological ideas on the other hand. An emphasis on the role played by mechanisms, production methods and instruments bestows a benefit on historical and scientific discourse: theories, institutions, universities, schools for engineers, social implications as well.
Scholars from different traditions discuss the emergency style of thinking in methodology and, in theoretical perspective, aim to gather and re-evaluate the current thinking on this subject. It brings together contributions from leading experts in the field, and gives much-needed insight into the subject from a historical point of view. The volume composition makes for absorbing reading for historians, philosophers and scientists.Foreword (by Marco Ceccarelli).
Prologue: What’s Wrong with Science and Technology Studies? What Needs to Be Done to Put it Right? (by Nicholas Maxwell).
Introduction: History of Science, Society and Technology Studies (by Raffaele Pisano).
Electronics and Information Engineering: A New Approach to Modelling 1880–1950 (by Chris Bissell).
Science-Technology Cross-Hybridization and its Role in the Crisis of the Scientific Method: An Historical Perspective (by Assunta Bonanno, Michele Camarca and Peppino Sapia).
How the Movie Camera Failed to Become Part of the Standard Astronomical Observational Toolkit (1895–1914) (by Vitor Bonifacio).
Heart Matters. The Collaboration Between Surgeons and Engineers in the Rise of Cardiac Surgery (by Luca Borghi).
Discovery of Electromagnetic Waves and Their Impact on Our Life-Style (by Mario Calamia, Giorgio Franceschetti and Alessandro Mori).
Interactions of Science, Technology and Medicine: Electromagnetic Radiation During the Twentieth Century (by Yulia Petrovna Chukova).
On the History and Technology of the Atomic Bomb. The Commitment of the Scientists (by Vincenzo Cioci).
Tribology: A Historical Overview of the Relation Between Theory and Application (by Javier Echavarri, Eduardo de la Guerra and Enrique Chacon).
From Paper to Erected Walls: The Astronomical Observatory of Coimbra: 1772–1799 (by Fernando B. Figueiredo).
Jean Hellot and 18th Century Chemistry at the Service of the State (by Remi Franckowiak).
Engineering Creativity: An Essay on Epistemological Analysis (by Elena Alexandrovna Gavrilina).
Galileo’s “Technoscience” (by Vitaly Gorokhov).
Mathematical Language as a Bridge Between Conceptualization of Motion and Experimental Practice (by Ladislav Kvasz).
‘The Renaissance of Physics’: Karl K. Darrow (1891–1982) and the Dissemination of Quantum Theory at the Bell Telephone Laboratories (by Roberto Lalli).
The Historical Development of X-ray Absorption Fine Spectroscopy and of Its Applications to Materials Science (by Annibale Mottana and Augusto Marcelli).
Mathematics and Technology at the University of Tartu (by Peeter Muursepp).
Highlights of King Sejong’s Astronomical Project: Observatory Ganui-dae and Calendar Chiljeong-san (by Moon-hyon Nam and Il-seong Nha).
Innovations on the Timekeeping Devices at King Sejong’s Observatory Ganui-dae (by Moon-hyon Nam).
Lazare Carnot and the Birth of Machines Science (by Agamenon Rodrigues Eufrasio Oliveira).
On the History and Engineering of the Human Factor (by Dominique Pecaud).
The Emergencies of Mechanics and Thermodynamics in the Western Technoscience-Society during Eighteenth–Nineteenth Century (by Raffaele Pisano and Paolo Bussotti).
A Critical Approach to Open Access Sources with a Focus on the History of Technology (by Birutė Railienė).
“Method and Much Scientific Probity”: Hugo de Lacerda (1860–1944) and the Chair of Hydrography of the Lisbon Naval School (1897–1907) (by Pedro Miguel Pinto Raposo).
Combinatorial Games and Machines (by Lisa Rougetet).
Development of New Steamships and History of the Shipping Industry in the Kingdom of the two Sicilies (1816–1861) (by Maria Sirago).
Unrealized Models of Tesla’s Table Fountains From 1917 (by Bratislav Stojiljković and Svetislav Lj. Marković).
The Design of Timber Trusses in Italy: From Empiricism to Structural Analysis (by Emanuele Zamperini).
A Point of View: Sciences, Societies, Cultures and Their Evolutions (by Bertrand Bocquet).